Then and Now and Now and Then

I went to wal-mart and bought a new CD called "Modern Times" on Tuesday by singer songwriter Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan (now 65) released his first album Bob Dylan when he was only 21 a few months older than I am now. He was born in 1941 and released Bob Dylan in 1962.

In 1962 the world was entrenched in politics. News and strange things happening all around and little did everyone know that in five or six years the fan would be hit very hard with some of that you know what! There were plane crashes with casualties far above 200. Wars were starting and political tension around the world was tightening. Pope John XXIII was taking care of business by excommunicating Fidel Castro from the catholic church. The Cuban Missile Crisis launched its way into the homes of peoples TV's and radios. As school children were taught how to hide under their desks because that desk and the surrounding building was the only thing guarding you from an attack on our own soil. The crisis ended in the same year and the country took a sigh of relief in unison. John Glenn successfully orbits the earth and is well renowned as the first man to accomplish that feat. Baseball games are played and The Beatles are releasing chart topping hits. All the while an up and coming folk artist known as Bob Dylan is slowly being discovered and little does anybody know, but he will change the face of rock and roll forever.

When I and other people say this is the worst its ever been some times I have to question that. I would agree that in some cases it is for example in regards to illegal immigration IT IS the worst its ever been. And in other aspects as well. But sometimes I have to think in regards to other topics "is it the worst we've ever had it?". Put any one of the stories that I posted above next to the stories that are being put out today and they are all contenders. So the next time that someone says to you "this is the worst we've ever had it" take a look at the past. Once you glance at the past it is evident that there were mistakes that we made and there were things that we did right. And then we ask ourselves how can we learn from the past? Here are a few answers, we shouldn't let politics run our wars, we shouldn't open our borders (you don't have to look to far back to see why), and we shouldn't forfeit our way of life to accommodate someone else's. And that is just a few things. In some instances in the past we did the right thing and in some we did the wrong thing and its those wrong things that we did that we need to learn from.

This country is broken and we have to fix it. Years ago it was not broken but for some reason we tried to fix it.

Thanks to wikipedia.org for all of the information.