Got sucked into watching Forest Gump yet again. I'm still amazed at the movie and how it shows all the events in our lives. This time, the war and protest scenes stuck a chord. We were too young to protest the Viet Nam war. Entering college in 1972, the big protests were already over. Watergate the issue. Boring to me. Caught up in my first election. Backing McGovern big time. Lost my first election. Into studying. War over before I knew it.
Now we are too old to protest this war. Just waiting for it all to be over. Will it ever? Consumed with reading about the war and the current administration. Why aren't the youth protesting the way they did before? How can we end this?
During a commercial, I read an article in Vanity Fair "Out of Africa" by Spencer Wells. He writes that we all are descendents from a small group in Africa. Makes sense to me. The next movie is Cast Away and Tom Hanks accidently makes a tool from a rock. Spencer Wells writes that the discovery of tools helped save the African group and allowed them to disperse into Eurasia. Fascinating.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/07/genographic200707
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
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