Comments | unmowngrass: therealljidol, season 11, week 1 -- Resolution

unmowngrass

therealljidol, season 11, week 1 -- Resolution

Sep 29, 2019 23:53

In 1998, Bill Clinton was President of the USA, John Major was Prime Minister of the UK, and I was 12 years old ( Read more... )

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Comments 15

rayaso September 30 2019, 20:35:12 UTC

This was such a great, personal essay that covers a lot of ground. "Unglued" is a great way to describe the current state of affairs. The first president I can remember is JFK. We survived the 60s and a lot of good came out of it. I don't know what will come out of the current mess, but I'm very pessimistic.

unmowngrass October 1 2019, 04:50:49 UTC

Thank you.

Tell me about JFK? I know he was shot, obviously, and that much of the Space program was originally his idea, but what kind of guy was he? What kind of politician? Please and thank you.

rayaso October 1 2019, 14:05:17 UTC

He was a young, charismatic president who made some mistakes (Bay of Pigs), had some triumphs (Cuban Missile Crisis), served in WWII, and who many, including me, thought would have accomplished great things, especially socially. I wish I had the time and knowledge to answer your questions fairly, but I suggest you look at something like Wikipedia. He was the opposite of the current holder of the office, if that suffices.

unmowngrass October 1 2019, 14:19:02 UTC

Thanks for your reply.

murielle October 2 2019, 16:35:57 UTC

A very thoughtful piece.

I'm sure I remember you from at least one other season. Welcome back!

unmowngrass October 2 2019, 18:50:25 UTC

Thank you!

morettaallstar October 2 2019, 16:40:12 UTC

This is wonderful, but it has left me in that ever-current state of OH GOD all of us now live in. Very well written.

unmowngrass October 2 2019, 18:50:49 UTC

hahaha, yeah, me too. but thanks

alycewilson October 2 2019, 21:11:06 UTC

I share your concerns and remain hopeful that we will come together and overcome the current destructiveness.

unmowngrass October 3 2019, 12:54:27 UTC

Thanks Alyce

halfshellvenus October 3 2019, 03:17:00 UTC

To be fair, some of us think that LGBTQ+ equality is really important and necessary and overdue. But I agree with everything else here, and with the frustration of all of this needed attention to climate change and alternative fuels having essentially stalled out for so very long.

unmowngrass October 3 2019, 12:10:56 UTC

Yeah, I'm not saying LGBT+ issues (along with many other things) aren't worth attention. Or at least, I didn't intend to say that. I only intended to say that politicians were/are putting effort into Things That Are Not Climate Change Or Even Tangentially Related To Climate Change, and so therefore people stopped talking about it as much. I thought the writing would suffer without an example, but in retrospect I should have used two. Sorry about that, but thanks for your comment.