* In my declining years, I've been wallowing in existential angst, questioning every source of pride and suspecting that much modesty and even some shame might be appropriate.
* The greatest generation and my generation enjoyed a golden age of resources and advantages which we squandered. Consider the Fleetwood Cadillac.
* We white male American Christians dominated and exploited every other kind of people not so specified, assuming that it was the natural order. I can remember greatly admiring the British empire, over which the sun never set.
* The opportunities for justice and peace that we had within our reach and wasted are enough to make one weep. Is our society or civilization the best that a society or civilization can be? If not, what would be?
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