stone savage

zeitgeist: late 1700s
ortgeist : The British Colonies known as “America”

If I try hard enough, I can still hear my mother - muttering under her breath as she often did - that I have “no common sense". How was I supposed to know, at the age of 7, that the colder water from the Sparklett’s water dispenser wasn’t any more effective at putting out my small backyard fire than water from the tap? Hrmph!

To this day, it is often said about me that I am plenty “book-smart” but I have no “street smarts"… which is just a way for my friends to chide me about how incredibly intelligent I can be at times, while also being incredibly naive (aka “stupid"). I don’t mind that they chide me; I’ve grown used to it over the years. In some ways, I suppose it’s true that I rather take pride in it.

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zeitgeist: the 1960s through 2004
ortgeist : the (un)trustworthy in the United States

“Never trust anyone over the age of 30″ was a popular phrase with the young people of the 1960s and 70s. Was it Bob Dylan or Abbie Hoffman who said it? I can never remember which dissident said what.

In any case, many of the Woodstock Generation wore that phrase like a badge of honor during the 1960s and 1970s. Later, they swapped the word “over” with “under” as they hit their 30s.

I think they were right - both times.

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