AGREE! I'm 66 from the wrong side of the MA tracks...mill town in Western MA. Our culture was 'in your face' usually with wit if you were 1) an ass/bragger/blowhard 2) a liar 3) threatening 4) dangerous 5) stupid 6) sex hound. And because people knew that they would be called out immediately and publicly the vast majority managed to beh…
AGREE! I'm 66 from the wrong side of the MA tracks...mill town in Western MA. Our culture was 'in your face' usually with wit if you were 1) an ass/bragger/blowhard 2) a liar 3) threatening 4) dangerous 5) stupid 6) sex hound. And because people knew that they would be called out immediately and publicly the vast majority managed to behave...surprise! Life was better before the hippies came in with their long hugs /'deep' eye contact and insistence on the 'safe containers' where no one should speak any words that might offended another. The boomers were generally infiltrated to be the leaders of what is now, a generation or two later and out of control Marxists nightmare which requires, as Jon so eloquently points out, a revival of the 'IN YOUR FACE' culture.
AGREE! I'm 66 from the wrong side of the MA tracks...mill town in Western MA. Our culture was 'in your face' usually with wit if you were 1) an ass/bragger/blowhard 2) a liar 3) threatening 4) dangerous 5) stupid 6) sex hound. And because people knew that they would be called out immediately and publicly the vast majority managed to behave...surprise! Life was better before the hippies came in with their long hugs /'deep' eye contact and insistence on the 'safe containers' where no one should speak any words that might offended another. The boomers were generally infiltrated to be the leaders of what is now, a generation or two later and out of control Marxists nightmare which requires, as Jon so eloquently points out, a revival of the 'IN YOUR FACE' culture.