[extropy-chat] Gen X amnesia

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 11:08 AM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Gen X amnesia
> 
> At 10:49 AM 11/5/2005 -0800, spike wrote:
> 
> >scerir:
> >
> > > in California (remember Marcuse? and Angela Davis?), etc.
> >
> >Well, actually no, but I am not the most historically
> >savvy guy you ever met.
> 
> This is awfully depressing, because without (actual or book-acquired)
> memory of the moderately recent past, there's no way one can sensibly
> attempt to estimate likely consequences of actions and strategies in the
> present and future...

Ja Im working on that.  Thank evolution for the internet.  

Your title of gen X *amnesia* suggests people
who once knew but forgot.  I don't recall ever having
learned of these matters.  In the 1960s and early 70s,
rockets and space were everything.  All politic debate
was just squabbling over stuff that didn't really 
matter much, and would go away eventually.  It was
a cool dream.

> 
> Spike, do you know that Greece, the "birthplace of democracy", was under
> fascist military rule when you were a child in the '60s and early '70s?
> Googling almost at random, see e.g.:

I did not know of this, thanks!

...
> 
> Not to know about Angela Davis, BTW, seems to me as strange as not knowing
> about Martin Luther King, whatever one thinks of her politics.
> 
> Damien Broderick

Ja we had MLK force-fed to us in the public schools,
but not Angela Davis.  I went to wikipedia, learned
that she was the big-haired person who wanted to do
away with prisons.  Hmmmmm, ok Angela, that sounds
like a great plan, lets go right out and do that, even
better idea than the huge afro.  

Not.

(What was up with all that hair?)

spike