“My name is Victoria Brisbane. My father is Arthur Brisbane.”
—Victoria Brisbane
That’s how I spent yesterday morning … watching it.
I started thinking about all the Mel Brooks movies in the 70s … Then I wondered what was going on with society at that time when most of my generation were in our 20s:
Gas crisis (people actually got killed over gas)
Women’s movement (which truly split America)
Vietnam (national disgrace and ‘baby killers’ returning home)
Watergate (lies, deceit, treachery)
Cold War (the threat of total destruction)
Iran (another Vietnam)
Lake Erie and pollution fears (literally caught fire in 1969)
Kent State (students shot down by our own soldiers)
Jackson State killing riot (two black students killed and dozens wounded by police)
The Hard Hat Riot (1000s of construction workers attack students protesting Vietnam War)
The Black Panthers (white people terrified of black uprising)
Charles Manson (Sharon Tate murders)
Philadelphia Gulf refinery fire (8 firefighters lost)
Edward Garner killing (led to a 1985 Supreme Court decision in the family’s favor that established that police can’t shoot fleeing suspects unless they pose immediate danger)
… and mor.
Are things REALLY worse?
Or just a little different?
Our parents went through all that, our parents went to bed worrying every night while we went to college, partied, and got stoned.
Sound familiar?
This Nation survived all that.
This Nation grew from all that.
This Nation IS better for all that.
So … here’s a thought,
KNOW this is temporary.
KNOW this is necessary.
KNOW this Nation will survive it.
KNOW this World will be better for us having gone through it.
—Louis Warfield
Flommist Louis Warfield is a fabrication specialist who runs the award-winning Rhino Design Studio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copyright © 2020 Louis Warfield.
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