#499 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday November 3)
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Good morning, NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET When I write about the 60s, 70s or 80s, I have a dear friend who often responds to these Musings with comments like “thanks for the message from our home planet.” That “home planet” is the era of our youth, when there was some sense that we lived in a common enlightened civilization that believed in science and had hope for the future. Importantly, civility toward each other (including those we didn’t even know) was part-and-parcel to what was expected of us as citizens. This is not to suggest that these times were universally idyllic, but that we had a sense that the idyllic could be experienced in small bits every day, we shared some amount of idealism, and we could work toward an idyllic future.
#499 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday November 3)
#499 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday…
#499 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday November 3)
Good morning, NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET When I write about the 60s, 70s or 80s, I have a dear friend who often responds to these Musings with comments like “thanks for the message from our home planet.” That “home planet” is the era of our youth, when there was some sense that we lived in a common enlightened civilization that believed in science and had hope for the future. Importantly, civility toward each other (including those we didn’t even know) was part-and-parcel to what was expected of us as citizens. This is not to suggest that these times were universally idyllic, but that we had a sense that the idyllic could be experienced in small bits every day, we shared some amount of idealism, and we could work toward an idyllic future.