793. Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
There's an old saying, "Everything in moderation, including moderation." It's been attributed to many people including Ben Franklin and Oscar Wilde. It comes to mind of late when thinking about the Duke Boys and their car, the General Lee. I'm just not all that clear that taking the Duke Boys off the air accomplishes much. Understand, this doesn't affect me. I stopped watching TV in 1984, about six months before the Dukes of Hazzard series came to an end. Then I think about places like Gettysburg and Perryville, both of which I've visited and both of which are celebrating battle anniversaries today. People from Kentucky on both sides of a war fought and died acting mostly on orders well above their rank. In my post of June 28th I mentioned my unsettled and unsettling self-to-self discussion on the Old South, revisionist history, censorship, and the potential of book burning. I'm still having that discussion. Censorship is a big problem for me. Book burning, deleting history from our history, is also a big problem for me. How can we learn from the past if we have relegated it to the rubbish heap?