I think this is mostly just an artifact of when you starting paying attention in your life, discounting what happened before, you are likely around 50 years old.
Remember there was the Vietnam war casus belli that was faked, the student protests and shootings, and Nixon spying on his opponents and before that there was the red scare, the Hollywood black list and segregation in the South.
I think weaving together complex set of events like this is too much like the mistake people make in a lot of "evolutionary just so" stories. The degrees of freedom are too large and it is hard to establish true causality in a realm of potentially infinite causal links just by conjecture.
I think it is easier and more productive frankly to see what levers and pressures one had right now on the government and then try to influence those.
I think government is always in tension between opposing forces and you'll align with some and against others depending on your background, disposition, position in society and your particular perspective of kinship.
Certainly true. Plus, I 'arrived' in America in '79 at a tender age when everyone wore k-mart suits (in two colors: egg shell, and powder blue /g).
> Remember there was the Vietnam war casus belli that was faked
That's not weirdness. We did that back in the day in Cuba and the Spanish-American war. Weirdness in this context is a nation changing its character, in a "weird" way.
I think this is mostly just an artifact of when you starting paying attention in your life, discounting what happened before, you are likely around 50 years old.
Remember there was the Vietnam war casus belli that was faked, the student protests and shootings, and Nixon spying on his opponents and before that there was the red scare, the Hollywood black list and segregation in the South.
I think weaving together complex set of events like this is too much like the mistake people make in a lot of "evolutionary just so" stories. The degrees of freedom are too large and it is hard to establish true causality in a realm of potentially infinite causal links just by conjecture.
I think it is easier and more productive frankly to see what levers and pressures one had right now on the government and then try to influence those.
I think government is always in tension between opposing forces and you'll align with some and against others depending on your background, disposition, position in society and your particular perspective of kinship.