I was reasonably well educated in the 60s and early 70s, but I was in one of the best educational systems in the country at the time, thanks to Charles Stewart Mott, and even then, I could see that a lot of my cohorts weren’t doing that well.
It was 62 years ago today. I think it was sometime after 911 that I noticed that the anniversary was no longer noted by the media. When I was younger, it was always commemorated; it was one of those “what were you doing when it happened” things, but the event is now long outside the lived memory of most people.
I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: