Nov

thinking about nature and nuture...

takes me back to my childhood... thinking of both nature and nuture aspects of my "shyness" as a first grader... both my bio-chemistry AND my parents etc...

part of the nurture is the socio-economic environment of my parents and grandparents and birth... we forget we're only a decade removed from WWII and two decades from the Great Depression...

I can see my birth into the 50's as still steeped in the superstition of religion and FEAR/WORK ethic...

whereas, can you see how the 60's tried to replace all that with the LOVE ethic???

Mary of PPM died recently... and I think someone else died... or something about
60's folk music... and thinking that I was influenced by the Vietnam War... my first Chairman at EKU knew the guy who wrote the speeches and coined the expression MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX for IKE...

4 interesting decades... 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60'...

I am surprised they all followed one another so quickly...

the next 4 being the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's don't seem distinct in a way... maybe societies and individuals reflect just a few basic patterns that alternate...

altho the 70's are a "material" -ization of the 60's...
the 80's and 90's maybe the 50's...
then the 00's are back to the 40's...

and I don't know where Obama has us now... I wish back in the 60's... but I'm afraid of right wing Christian/Republicans getting back in office too soon...

I sure hope Obama is successful at getting re-elected...