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I Don't Know That I Ever Bought Into The "american Dream." I Was A Child Of Privilege. I Grew Up In The '50s And It Was A Quiet Time In America, At Least On The Surface And I Grew Up In A Kind Of Feathery Bed Of Privilege.

Fairly Apolitical. Kind Of Aspiring To Participate In Life. I'm 18-19 Years Old. Wanting To Dive Into The World And Finding The World Opening For Me In Ways That Were Unimaginable. I Didn't Sleep For The Whole First Year At University Because It Was Too Much Going On. Too Many Films To See, Too Many Concerts To Go To.

[students For A Democratic Society] Was On Many Campuses And It Was A Powerful Organization. It Was Founded By Tom Hayden, Who Passed Away Very Recently. It Was One Of The Founders Of Sds And That Chief Writer Of The Port Huron Statement, Which Is Still Worth Reading. It's Kind Of The Bernie Sanders Campaign Document In A Funny Way.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

What We Need Is A Gigantic, Messy Community Conversation About What Is Teaching And Learning For The 21st Century. We Need To Engage Communities.