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In reply to the discussion: Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the United States? [View all]cachukis
(2,788 posts)Others would argue, rightly, that intellect and art will always go on.
America begat the '50's and '60's. We had just whupped the bad guys with aplomb.
We boomer's have experienced the fight for ideological freedom. Haven't lived up so well to that ideal. Progress, is slow. But we did have the best music. Might be the height of America's legacy. We did get to the Moon on that ideal, but Title IX took some more time.
We still haven't figured out how to deal with the others. Too many of us can't deal with the others. We have had ample time to figure out that we are others.
I'm not sure we can handle the climate change since we are doing so poorly with masks.
If we don't shrink our perspective to our understanding that we all need each other to survive what's happening, then solutions will continue to be evasive.
Democracy has been tested mightily this go round.
There is a lot of money that want's to grow. Control of the water to moisten the soil is where the money will be spent. Freedom, the plant, needs a lot of attention to the weeds sucking the moisture.