ecureilx wrote:PS, I always feel a bit amused to see youngsters, most of whom aren't even working, venting their anger towards the ruling party ..
maybe the govt need to enroll them in serious military programs to mind control them, at a young age :p :p
or they are just taking their well-to-do-parent's rants seriously ..
- An analogy might be suggesting that no one (
especially the young and/or unemployed) can criticise the UK Conservative Party, after all Winston Churchill led the country to victory in WW2 and that was the political party that he led. Or alternatively, criticism of Winston Churchill, perhaps the UK's greatest national icon of the past century after the Queen, is an arrestable offence. Or [?] that no one can criticise the late Lord Soames, Churchill's grandson, and latterly the Leader of the House of Lords. On the contrary Churchill fought for precisely the opposite, for liberty, including the right to free speech.
I agree that there is a sense that 'the young' can never understand the hardships of the past, or the scale of the sacrifices that went into providing many of us today with the liberty that we have. But I don't think those historical sacrifices were made with an expectation that we'd forever after be required to look back in silent reverence.
I do think though, that just in terms of simple human respect and decency that this
not the time to be criticising the life of LKY.
--- I'd like to note here, that when I wrote the above I had not heard this mornings news that LKY has passed away.