Feeling Un-American
Oct. 18th, 2005 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Tonight I watched the PBS show American Experience about two concurrent events of the fall of 1967: a battle in Vietnam and a campus riot Stateside. I was literally a baby when these things happened. The people who witnessed one event or the other (as microcosms of the bigger changes) were talking about how different the world had become for them after it was over.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say here. These days I've had so much anger and ill-will brewing inside me towards events and the powers behind them. I'm this close to believing that there is no such thing as a good American--only degrees of evil among Americans. I want to be proven wrong...or had the power to prove it wrong by myself.
FP
Tonight I watched the PBS show American Experience about two concurrent events of the fall of 1967: a battle in Vietnam and a campus riot Stateside. I was literally a baby when these things happened. The people who witnessed one event or the other (as microcosms of the bigger changes) were talking about how different the world had become for them after it was over.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say here. These days I've had so much anger and ill-will brewing inside me towards events and the powers behind them. I'm this close to believing that there is no such thing as a good American--only degrees of evil among Americans. I want to be proven wrong...or had the power to prove it wrong by myself.
FP
