FLW grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. So these were farmers in the late 1800s. I think his mother was a school teacher. So pretty average people

This really hits upon something that struck me recently. I was reading a biography of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and it discussed how his evening tradition growing up in late 1800s Wisconsin was to play music as a family. Each person played an instrument and after dinner they’d sit together playing music. And FLW insisted on keeping up this tradition when he got old and famous.

It struck me that radio and tv and now internet have really turned us into such passive consumers. Without that entertainment families were forced to entertain themselves, they created music together, and this wasn’t seen as a strange aberration, but just something people did back then. In this day and age it’s probably an extinct way of spending time as a family

Not confused and I wasn’t born yesterday. Yes DNC voters now are moderately anti Israel. But for the last 7 decades they were not. I’m old enough to remember their consistent full-chested support for Israeli apartheid decade after decade after decade through intifadas and land seizures and expulsions and multiple bloody invasions of Gaza.

Came to say the same. Wouldn’t marry an American Republican or an American Democrat. Both are nutjobs and evil and bought by AIPAC

Aurangzeb Tamerlane Bunduqdari

Has a nice ring to it