Posted on 02/22/2006 1:00:49 PM PST by JSedreporter
While the anti-war movement of the 1960s was led by students, today’s campus demonstrations are just as likely to be orchestrated by professors; and the funny thing is, they are the same people.
“The generation that came of age in the 1960s is now approaching retirement in the universities and their children and grandchildren are very different in the way they think about the world,” historian David Hackett Fischer said in an interview with The American Enterprise (TAE) magazine. “The excesses of these movements always build in their own contradictions.”
Some observers who survey the college scene might argue that Dr. Fischer, who teaches at Brandeis, is taking too rosy a view of the overwhelming liberal dominance on campuses today. Nonetheless, other surveys indicate that most academics are on a collision course with reality.
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This headline could be over 40 years old.
DH Fischer is a national treasure.
Let's hope they all retire early and their health is a result of their youthful habits in the 60's........
"Professors Out of Touch with War Realities"
Dog-bites-man type headline.
This has the makings if the biggest mass deathbed conversion, ever.
“TV satellite dishes are as ubiquitous as mobile phones, and now sprout from even the rudest abodes in Iraq’s most out-of-the-way corners,” Zinsmeister writes. “Fully 86 percent of Iraqi households reported having satellite TV at the end of 2005.”
The end result being that the citizens of Iraq will not be kept in the dark, having decisions about their future, and their interaction with the American government, being made for them by Lefty professors and their "anything to dodge the draft" students.
Ummmm i think thats an Oxymoron the generation may have created from the sixty's and it was either from communist or socialist roots that it developed into what they became but to say they "came of age" is ridiculous coming of age means to grow up THEY NEVER DID !
And though they may have Grey hair and wear depends sit in wheelchairs or are just walking and talking a little slower but they never matured never grew out of stomping their feet never stopped whining when they lost never got on with life EVEN when theirs was an aw some well lived one.!!!
Drugs and communism go together like coca cola and cherry syrup hence the 1960's hippie communist the generation that never grew up !
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