Thank you for writing such a prescient article. It sparked a memory of my High School History teacher, Mr Fisher. In 1969, just as the Vietnam war was getting real for 18 year old boys I was 16 in 10th grade.
I was not a great student, but I tended to get decent grades because I thought I was pretty good at figuring out what was important. Later in life I realized that I was lucky to be alive and had to work to achieve anything of value.
Fisher’s class was immediately before lunch and the topic was the economic recovery in the USA after the Great Depression.
I feigned interest, took a few notes, watched the clock and when the bell rang I headed to the cafeteria. I distinctly remember Mr Fisher raising his voice and forcibly stating that “many people feel that this economy needs a war to be waged in order to be sustainable”.
Thank you for writing such a prescient article. It sparked a memory of my High School History teacher, Mr Fisher. In 1969, just as the Vietnam war was getting real for 18 year old boys I was 16 in 10th grade.
I was not a great student, but I tended to get decent grades because I thought I was pretty good at figuring out what was important. Later in life I realized that I was lucky to be alive and had to work to achieve anything of value.
Fisher’s class was immediately before lunch and the topic was the economic recovery in the USA after the Great Depression.
I feigned interest, took a few notes, watched the clock and when the bell rang I headed to the cafeteria. I distinctly remember Mr Fisher raising his voice and forcibly stating that “many people feel that this economy needs a war to be waged in order to be sustainable”.
Indeed, truer words were never uttered.