I enjoyed the 9/14, Guest column by John Hallwas, brilliant, retired English professor & historian at Western Illinois University; he’s written over 2 dozen books; writer & speaker for the McDonough County Voice. I graduated from WIU back in the 90s. I mainly took Independent Study courses, so I never met Professor Hallwas in person; he had edited & compiled the textbook on “Early Illinois” for the course he taught, and I relished. He had studied many old manuscript writings, and brought to life so many fascinating characters, who had played their parts in Illinois’ early history & founding.
In his guest column, he made the crucial point that our childhood & young adult experiences form the basis of our development into adults. Early experiences color all our perceptions of the world in which he live, strengthen or debilitate us, motivate or disable us, form our mindsets & opinions, and become our perceived memories of “The Way We Were”, another course I enjoyed, a look back at the 1950s, and how we nostalgically remember it, in many ways better than it was, or how it was for some of us.
Mosher’s 9/14 opinions are interesting in this regard, how he “was raised in a simpler and less divisive time” (while applauding Insurrectionists now), and I’m quite sure that many people would agree with him. Most of us were likely raised with little awareness of the political backdrop of our times, and the realities of how others, maybe even nearby, were suffering, starving, being unjustly imprisoned, enslaved, beaten, raped, incested, prematurely-impregnated. Mosher stated, “we need to put the unhappy times in limbo where they belong”. However, that ‘state of limbo’ is never far from our consciousness. It’s much healthier to work through negative, unhappy memories, make sense of them & release them. I pray for healing for all.
Mosher’s memories of “Trump’s reign” are mainly good ones. We easily discern that Mosher & other MAGAs infuse Trump with qualities he doesn’t, cannot hold, and cast their beloved fuhrer in a glowing light of strong leadership, while embellishing & outright lying about his ‘recent accomplishments’, while ignoring & denying all his grossly illegal corruption. The world is changing, and many are understandably afraid that they can’t fit in that new world order; some would rather blow it up, than try. Truth is the world has always been changing. I agree with Mosher on one opinion, “we have too many people living in a parallel universe, with blinders on.” Cast off the blinders & WAKE UP, MAGAs & QAnoners! Awaken to a brave new world!
Trish Forsyth Voss
Sep 27 2022
Skewed Perceptions
I enjoyed the 9/14, Guest column by John Hallwas, brilliant, retired English professor & historian at Western Illinois University; he’s written over 2 dozen books; writer & speaker for the McDonough County Voice. I graduated from WIU back in the 90s. I mainly took Independent Study courses, so I never met Professor Hallwas in person; he had edited & compiled the textbook on “Early Illinois” for the course he taught, and I relished. He had studied many old manuscript writings, and brought to life so many fascinating characters, who had played their parts in Illinois’ early history & founding.
In his guest column, he made the crucial point that our childhood & young adult experiences form the basis of our development into adults. Early experiences color all our perceptions of the world in which he live, strengthen or debilitate us, motivate or disable us, form our mindsets & opinions, and become our perceived memories of “The Way We Were”, another course I enjoyed, a look back at the 1950s, and how we nostalgically remember it, in many ways better than it was, or how it was for some of us.
Mosher’s 9/14 opinions are interesting in this regard, how he “was raised in a simpler and less divisive time” (while applauding Insurrectionists now), and I’m quite sure that many people would agree with him. Most of us were likely raised with little awareness of the political backdrop of our times, and the realities of how others, maybe even nearby, were suffering, starving, being unjustly imprisoned, enslaved, beaten, raped, incested, prematurely-impregnated. Mosher stated, “we need to put the unhappy times in limbo where they belong”. However, that ‘state of limbo’ is never far from our consciousness. It’s much healthier to work through negative, unhappy memories, make sense of them & release them. I pray for healing for all.
Mosher’s memories of “Trump’s reign” are mainly good ones. We easily discern that Mosher & other MAGAs infuse Trump with qualities he doesn’t, cannot hold, and cast their beloved fuhrer in a glowing light of strong leadership, while embellishing & outright lying about his ‘recent accomplishments’, while ignoring & denying all his grossly illegal corruption. The world is changing, and many are understandably afraid that they can’t fit in that new world order; some would rather blow it up, than try. Truth is the world has always been changing. I agree with Mosher on one opinion, “we have too many people living in a parallel universe, with blinders on.” Cast off the blinders & WAKE UP, MAGAs & QAnoners! Awaken to a brave new world!
Trish Forsyth Voss
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