My Choice of Heroes Mark Gerzon wrote A Choice of Heroes (1984) several decades ago. The thesis of that book was that we, as the generation of baby boomers and those who were born later, could choose whomever we wanted as heroes. The strange part of all of this is that the society had moved so far to the right with far right-wing Republicans, along with their religious fundamentalist base and neoliberal conservative Democrats, that there is now a dearth of heroes from which to choose. The word neoliberal is the opposite of what once passed for liberalism and has not existed since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Johnson let the liberal Great Society burn to the ground under the weight of the Vietnam War.
My Choice of Heroes
My Choice of Heroes
My Choice of Heroes
My Choice of Heroes Mark Gerzon wrote A Choice of Heroes (1984) several decades ago. The thesis of that book was that we, as the generation of baby boomers and those who were born later, could choose whomever we wanted as heroes. The strange part of all of this is that the society had moved so far to the right with far right-wing Republicans, along with their religious fundamentalist base and neoliberal conservative Democrats, that there is now a dearth of heroes from which to choose. The word neoliberal is the opposite of what once passed for liberalism and has not existed since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Johnson let the liberal Great Society burn to the ground under the weight of the Vietnam War.