Two Magazine Covers: Where Has America Stumbled Off To? 

But today it’s different. Young folks today don’t know the history of their parent’s generation. (I can proudly say that my own sons are exceptions to this rule. My oldest was a history major and would sometimes preface dinner table remarks along these lines: “I was reading Tacitus the other day and noticed ….” 

Pretty cool. He went to Pepperdine, which probably accounts for his erudition … real or imagined by an adoring Dad. The young today have been informed of nothing they haven’t seen on television or their “smart” phone. Their minds are full of superfluous trash. No room for facts. 

The situation is getting dire.

Note: The teacher’s lecture about National Socialism that day long ago still rings loudly in my head. That’s all I remember of what she tried to teach us that year. If she had been as passionate about public speaking as she was about those murderous Nazis, I would doubtless be a far better public speaker today, causing fewer jurors to come perilously close to slipping into chronic somnambulism … or worse.

Topics: Rolling Stone Magazine, Life Magazine, WW II, History