June 2, 2009
Ode to the 20th Century
I read a quick edictorial on “…the passing of the working class masculanity” that makes me feel nostalgic…about the good ole 20th century. I was thinking last night that my father and grandfather were part of this absolutely extraordinary time in human history. Even though that 100 years might seem brief in geological terms, all those human efforts and inventiveness as a whole created such a razz matazz of change in such a short time that it will stay precedence in any history before it and all of the history to come. I mean our information age is of course fascinating and unpredictable, but it is not as intense, physical, and almost brutally majestic as the changes incurred in the world during the 20th century. I am compelled to drive that point home when I get a chance to write again.
