2017-12-24
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So I was talking to my ex-wife's grandmother the other day.
My ex-grandmother-in-law, I guess that makes her.
Basically a blood relative of mine.
She was a depression baby, lived through World War II, came of age in the world,
post-World War II, when most of the early Frankfurt schools do their work.
She didn't particularly follow politics that much, which she says was common among people of her generation.
And during the 1960s, she was a stay-at-home mother of four,
witnessing on television a much more politically involved generation.
The student protests against the Vietnam War, the excesses of capitalism,
the leader of which, who she'd often see on TV, was one Herbert Marcuse.
So when I was talking to her, I asked her, what was it like back then?
Like, was the feeling in the country one of revolution?
Did it feel like the foundations of capitalism were being shook and questioned and the countries on the verge of heading in a different direction?
And she looked at me kind of confused and said, no, not at all.
I mean, she saw the protests on TV all the time,
but the way she was educated to think of it, the consensus among all the people she knew as well,
is that these were just a bunch of spoiled kids that went off to university and were ungrateful for what their country was doing for them,