I came of age in the Carter years. And one thing I have in common with today's young adults is that those were hard economic times. I was also in the when you're young stage of if you are not a liberal when you are young thing and the 1960s anti-war crowd was successful so we thought the liberal war was won. So I did not pay much attenti…
I came of age in the Carter years. And one thing I have in common with today's young adults is that those were hard economic times. I was also in the when you're young stage of if you are not a liberal when you are young thing and the 1960s anti-war crowd was successful so we thought the liberal war was won. So I did not pay much attention to politics. I knew gas went from gas wars where a gallon was 15 cents (I had to write that out because I do not have the cents symbol) to oil embargoes and OPEC to the Iranian embassy debaucle. My dad worked on the helicopters sent to rescue the hostages that failed. He was devastated. So I was unaware of Carter's Op Ed. Not surprised by it though. He was the first President in my adulthood, maybe my life, to epitomize weakness. He was defeated by the Islamists. Then hosted them at Camp David. In hindsight we should have paid better attention to them.
As for the existence of miracles and the Higher Power, the way Rushdie contemplates it is one way. His circumstances brought him to a situation he could not rationalize. Another is to ponder where the evil, and it does exist, comes from. I submit if you believe there is good versus evil, light versus dark, fulfillment versus a void you do indeed believe in a higher power.
I came of age in the Carter years. And one thing I have in common with today's young adults is that those were hard economic times. I was also in the when you're young stage of if you are not a liberal when you are young thing and the 1960s anti-war crowd was successful so we thought the liberal war was won. So I did not pay much attention to politics. I knew gas went from gas wars where a gallon was 15 cents (I had to write that out because I do not have the cents symbol) to oil embargoes and OPEC to the Iranian embassy debaucle. My dad worked on the helicopters sent to rescue the hostages that failed. He was devastated. So I was unaware of Carter's Op Ed. Not surprised by it though. He was the first President in my adulthood, maybe my life, to epitomize weakness. He was defeated by the Islamists. Then hosted them at Camp David. In hindsight we should have paid better attention to them.
As for the existence of miracles and the Higher Power, the way Rushdie contemplates it is one way. His circumstances brought him to a situation he could not rationalize. Another is to ponder where the evil, and it does exist, comes from. I submit if you believe there is good versus evil, light versus dark, fulfillment versus a void you do indeed believe in a higher power.