A
And, uh, a lot of, I see among some of my friends and even more among some of my students, who are, you know, maybe twenty, a real sense of, you know, America's losing it.
B
Yes.
A
And losing it in the competitive market, and a real knowl-, uh, a lack of understanding how that could be. In the sense that how could America have gone from being number one, to possibly being number two, to, you know, our former enemies and things like that and, uh, so I see, I see a lot of, uh, a lot of pessimism growing, um, and at the same time I think there's, there's, there's a growing environmentalist movement and sense of corporate respon-, increased corporate responsible towards, uh, you know, environmental safety and things like that. And that might potentially be sort of the civil right, the equivalent of the Civil Rights Act in, in the near future, in terms of, you know, some real landmark bills passing and things like that. Such that, you know, people. The thing about civil rights is people take it for granted now. I mean my generation doesn't, can't rest on the, the glow of having achieved civil rights because we were born into an assumption that, you know, yes there's still some racism but, you know, basically things are, the assumption, things are basically kind of taken care of and there's a notion of fairness.
B
Yes.
A
That's, um, while still far from perfect, is much more established, I think.
B
But even, uh, I think, uh, along the line of the, uh, goals of civil rights,