What I got Wrong, Just Like Most Everyone Else
This isn't how Fall was supposed to be I had to add extra fuel to the wayback machine to get material for this month’s topic, misconceptions about adulthood. I’m taking it a step further because what I came up with was bigger, scarier, and a heck of a lot more pervasive/perturbing. When I graduated from high school in 1966, I don’t think I spent much time pondering the future. College at Arizona State and the growing unease in America about the Vietnam War, changed that. During my second semester freshman year, we were tasked with writing a research paper. For reasons I cannot remember, I chose to do mine on the economic repercussions of the air war over North Vietnam. The deeper I dug, the more horrified I became. What started out as an economic analysis soon shifted to a moral one and I realized this was not only a far too expensive war, but was immoral and one we had no business waging. That realization and my forays into psychedelics, changed my way of looking at the world...
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