For I cling on to the Golden Sixties with all my soul:




Am a child of the Seventies deep in my heart:




Lived through the Eighties, through my wits' end and beyond:




Matured in the Nineties, through trial and error:




Matured some more in the "Noughties" -and survived- as it should be:




And am now truly becoming a man of the 21st Century true and true (even though, sometimes, I feel like Buck Rogers did in the 25th - or is that Duck Dodgers in the whatever it is for that quack?)




Through all this, I can say that all the diversity of input that created this mish-mash, this maelstrom of sights and sounds in my head, has truly endowed me with quite the perspective here... It has given me that ol' luminous discernment that I talk about, here and elsewhere, throughout the TLB Prime Network!  I also call it something else:
I've called it 20/20 Vision - with a capital "V" baby! Oui!




For, when one sticks around long enough, one sees through the smoke and mirrors, reads between the lines, discerns the truth that much better - and faster! One realizes how true old adages really are: yes, history does repeat itself. Even when they think they know their history and feel therefore unencumbered with the inevitable doom of repeating it: they will repeat it, in some brand-new novel way all of their own...! It is all the more reason to be fond of the past - after all, they made mistakes because they had never heard of those things before. What's our excuse...?