Boatrockers that didn't Twitter

[I often wonder what made those that came before us (and provided us with the relative ease we currently possess) so much more heroic, and capable of enacting real change, not this watered down reformism of today.

Studs Terkel talked about the lack of a historical perspective today, which I posit has much to do with our fixation on technology, and lack of understanding about the importance of understanding our past.--JB]