Meryl at 70.:
I don’t know what converstations take place at the White House, I was referring specifically to the ideas of the so-called ’68 Movement in Germany ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_student_movement ) that, apart from actually doing a few positive things, included many nutty ideas about the “restructuring” of the world, and thought that a new kind of socialism would be the solution to all problems. The ironic thing is that many of those ideas are/were just as absolutist as any faschist worldview. History is witness to the fact that these ideas simply don’t work, and especially Germans should know better (by looking at how miserably East Germany failed) than to stick to this utopian stuff today. I’m too young to have been part of that original movement and it annoys me that my generation has to deal with this crap.
