"The first time I traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, as the plane flew into the skies over London, I was struck by the thought that, in these skies, a thousand British fighter pilots fought off Hitler’s air force and saved both Britain and Western civilization. But how many students today will have any idea of such things, with history being neglected in favor of politically correct rhetoric?"
Random Thoughts, Looking Back
Thomas Sowell December 28, 2016
A final farewell, bonus edition.
Any honest man, looking back on a very long life,
must admit — even if only to himself — to being a relic of a bygone era.
Having lived long enough to have seen both “the greatest generation”
that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all
around us today makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an
admission.
Not everything in the past was admirable. Poet W.H. Auden called the
1930s “a low dishonest decade.” So were the 1960s, which launched many
of the trends we are experiencing so painfully today. Some of the
fashionable notions of the 1930s reappeared in the 1960s, often using
the very same discredited words and producing the same disastrous
consequences.The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer, if they disregard the record of the past.
If you want to understand the fatal dangers facing America today, read The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill. ...
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