Daniel Lakeland on Nostr: My kids are getting back into school so of course now I'm having conversations about ...
My kids are getting back into school so of course now I'm having conversations about the cultural milieu surrounding the release if The Catcher In The Rye in 1951, the rise of the "Beat Generation", and the eventual development of the Hippies and Yippies of the 60s and 70s. Teachers, you can't just drop a book on kids and not explain its context and eventual importance (I think the teacher is actually pretty good, but probably doesn't go far enough for me).
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