I don’t know how many times I have quoted or paraphrased Thomas Sowell who said “The past four decades have seen things that work being replaced by things that sound good.” Of course it is closer to five decades today. As I was going through the Weekend Pundit Archives I came across this from just a couple of years ago, something that echos what Sowell told us.
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I was born in the 1950s. I’ve lived in seven decades, two centuries, and two millennia.
My generation had the fastest cars, the prettiest girls, drive-ins, soda fountains, and happy days.
You could understand the words in our music, and you could dance to it.
We carried knives in our pockets, and guns in our pickup trucks, and nobody got killed.
I have seen the past.
And it works.
Amen.
