Peder
Well-Known Member
THow Long Is An Era?
'Tis commonplace knowledge, 'specially 'mongst Octos, that
Memory improves with age, becomes sharper, clearer, as
Further backward in time events and ideas recede, until
They reach before the Llennials' time, who
Don't know them at all.
Thoughts once commonplace, but recently declining, like
America First, KKK, Jim Crow, foreigners, segregation existed, but
Were replaced increasingly, in Four Freedoms' Era and New Deal, by
Tolerance, respect, equality, fair employment and Equal Opportunity, until
Reversed by recent election.
So how long must a person live,
To see an Era come and go?
From Roosevelt to Trump, just four score and four,
Eighty-four years, from hope to despair.
That's the answer, 84. All in a single lifetime.
'Tis commonplace knowledge, 'specially 'mongst Octos, that
Memory improves with age, becomes sharper, clearer, as
Further backward in time events and ideas recede, until
They reach before the Llennials' time, who
Don't know them at all.
Thoughts once commonplace, but recently declining, like
America First, KKK, Jim Crow, foreigners, segregation existed, but
Were replaced increasingly, in Four Freedoms' Era and New Deal, by
Tolerance, respect, equality, fair employment and Equal Opportunity, until
Reversed by recent election.
So how long must a person live,
To see an Era come and go?
From Roosevelt to Trump, just four score and four,
Eighty-four years, from hope to despair.
That's the answer, 84. All in a single lifetime.
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