Linda, this is a very small cavil, yet I feel bound to make it.
Around the time that Reagan became President, I noticed a sharp switch in motivation among politicians and officials I saw working in Europe. Hitherto, the guiding attitude had been one of "What's in it for US?" In a short space of time, this was replaced by "What's in it f…
Linda, this is a very small cavil, yet I feel bound to make it.
Around the time that Reagan became President, I noticed a sharp switch in motivation among politicians and officials I saw working in Europe. Hitherto, the guiding attitude had been one of "What's in it for US?" In a short space of time, this was replaced by "What's in it for ME?" ME... ME... ME... ME...
Part of this I attribute to the passing of the generation that had fought and suffered in the Second World War, men and women determined to build a better world for posterity. Many in my own generation, born into the war and the struggling period of postwar reconstruction, now wanted a slice of the cake... for themselves. Many relinquished their loudly proclaimed social principles overnight, espousing the new "truths" of Reaganomics, etc. Much turning of coats.
So, yes, Reagan made a fine figurehead for "the clever hopes" of another "low dishonest decade" but it's his paymasters and our society that enabled the damage.
With Donald D.T. we move from the stereotyped puppetry of the period's soap operas through the looking glass into "virtual reality", a world of pure video game projections. Flickering appearances with nothing whatever behind them.
Mass psychosis guaranteed.
There's reason to fear that the cure may be a very hard one.
Linda, this is a very small cavil, yet I feel bound to make it.
Around the time that Reagan became President, I noticed a sharp switch in motivation among politicians and officials I saw working in Europe. Hitherto, the guiding attitude had been one of "What's in it for US?" In a short space of time, this was replaced by "What's in it for ME?" ME... ME... ME... ME...
Part of this I attribute to the passing of the generation that had fought and suffered in the Second World War, men and women determined to build a better world for posterity. Many in my own generation, born into the war and the struggling period of postwar reconstruction, now wanted a slice of the cake... for themselves. Many relinquished their loudly proclaimed social principles overnight, espousing the new "truths" of Reaganomics, etc. Much turning of coats.
So, yes, Reagan made a fine figurehead for "the clever hopes" of another "low dishonest decade" but it's his paymasters and our society that enabled the damage.
With Donald D.T. we move from the stereotyped puppetry of the period's soap operas through the looking glass into "virtual reality", a world of pure video game projections. Flickering appearances with nothing whatever behind them.
Mass psychosis guaranteed.
There's reason to fear that the cure may be a very hard one.