Thw dandy is the not quite middle aged artist. It is a phase that we (i) have all gone through. "To live and die before the mirror" is the dandie's slogan according the Baudelaire via Bower via Camus pg 51. MAry shelly only lived to 52, Percy only to 30 and Byron to 32. They may have matured past the dandy mirrored navel gazing phase had they lived aslong as I expect to. I have noticed that the young ones do not understand us old ones. It is up to us old ones to be all the nore undersatdning of the young.
Revolt does not equal revolting in English. Does ones cultural history influence the understanding of concepts as well as vocabulary? Yes
I fear for the young people of today listening to the "president
' of the US presenting his "very" limited vocabulary, sad, and his self serving motivations . How will this influence oury oung people in another 10 to 20 years. I have been going back to what I can remember about being a high-schooler during the Reagan era. I remember the end of the big chill of fear about the "bomb". My parents lived through a more vsceral fear of the "bomb" and now our kids are blase about the whole situation. This disregard or unconcern with the folly of our leaders is at once healthy and an erosion of our future possibilities.
I work with teenagers every day that are disenfranchized and treat every story or post as equal. The fight at school the latest tweet from our "president" i tis all just a redictulous show
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