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Wonderful Can Happen: With Dumbness at the Top and Media as the New Opiate of the Masses, Still, “Yes, We Can” Proved We Could.

Posted on November 5, 2012 by sillymickel

To Our Amazement, Charlie Brown Connected, Lucy Apologized, a Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would: Anything Is Possible … Means Everything Is Possible Culture War, Class War, Chapter 23: Something Wonderful Can Happen There Are Good Reasons Why Our … Continue reading →

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America Since Its “Pleasantville” Fifties: Cultural Rebirth Aborted, Changing of the Guard Denied, The Elders on Life Support, and the Abomination Fills the Land

Posted on July 18, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War Chapter Seven: Cultural Rebirth, Aborted It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Life…for the World War Two Generation Compared to Their Boomer Children War Compelled the Dashing of Dreams for WWII Gen Youth – It’s a Not-So Wonderful … Continue reading →

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The King Who Won’t Die and the Abortion of Cultural Rebirth … What the Current Cultural-Political Regression Has to Do With the Struggles of Generations

Posted on July 15, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Five: The King Won’t Die – An Aborted Changing of the Guard Generation Gap (60s-70s), Culture War (80s-90s), Class War (00s-10s) … The Song Remains the Same Since the Nineties: America Getting Free and America … Continue reading →

The WWII Generation’s Sacrifice Made Sixties Idealism Possible: We Are the Centaurs, My Friends

Posted on November 12, 2011 by sillymickel

The WWII Generation’s Sacrifice Made the Sixties Dreaming of Their Children Possible Mashing Butterflies and Drowning Kittens This is not to say, however, that the generations before the WWII Generation were allowed their dreams and that the WWII Generation is … Continue reading →

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It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Youth…for the World War Two Generation Compared to Idealistic Sixties Gen Youth

Posted on November 11, 2011 by sillymickel

War Compelled the Dashing of Dreams for WWII Gen Youth – It’s a Not-So Wonderful Life Sixties Youth Ideals of Freedom – So at Odds with Their Parents Lives of Heavy Responsibilities The paramount theme in “Pleasantville”—which is that thinking … Continue reading →

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America Getting Free and America in Chains: The U.S. Since the Nineties

Posted on November 4, 2011 by sillymickel

Generation Gap (60s-70s), Culture War (80s-90s), Class War (00s-10s)… The Song Remains the Same America Getting Free, Breaking Out What do these events have in common? The popularity of Democrats since the Nineties, with Obama’s favorability ratings high despite US … Continue reading →