Response to Post about Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (American Literature 04-13-12).

What comes around goes around, and I think these later generations realize how much of this is true. The sins of the father fall upon the son, the wars we fight are the ones that destroy ourselves, and our capacity to be real among ourselves.Since we are what we leave behind, are we the results of fighting in wars, in hating other people, of elevation ourselves over some, resenting our status underneath others, always against and opposed to some certain type of people. Until the global wars destroyed people on apocalyptic scale did we as a race of people begin to understand global annihilation was possible. We as Americans, enjoyed a certain peace and freedom from global oppression, in the various forms that arose, either within a country or from without. But other parts of the globe are becoming stronger, and America will see its own destruction someday, if perhaps not by nuclear apocalypse, then by economic policy of over confident men. Apocalypses come and go, in both big and small forms, in global and in the personal form, and it is "the writer" or "the critic" that shapes the events going on around us into a narrative form to give comfort to one another, and in hopefully offering some kind of advice that another human being might find useful and advantageous in the correct circumstances.