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A Pearl Of Wisdom From 50 Years Ago


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2020 Jun 2, 6:11am   398 views  3 comments

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#barbarismMy best friend during my undergrad days at Tulane was a graduate student in social work named Ken Jaye. He once gave me a pearl of wisdom as follows:



"Society is a thin veneer of civilization above a sea of barbarism."

The rioting and looting that we are seeing now has proved Ken right once more. Beware, more social unrest is coming!

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1   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 2, 6:17am  

. . . held together by restrained violence (the police). Momentary some of the restraint is missing.
Similarly my tactics instructor used to call war orchestrated violence; and we, military officers were the conductors.
2   NDrLoR   2020 Jun 2, 8:53am  

ohomen171 says
50 Years Ago
1970, that pretty much says it all. The year three bomb-makers blew themselves to smithereens in the basement of a New York City brownstone while making a bomb to set off at a Naval Reserve dance that night.

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