bunch of trends, the united states was heading in the right direction on industriousness, religion eos city, honesty, and marriage. we were headed in the right direction. things changed in the 1960's. social capital is a fascinating example. documenting what has been happening to social capital, is not the case that in the 1920's, if we were really religious and then we became less religious. we were much more religious and terms of the measures of attendance of church in the 1950's than we were in the 1920's. i do not need to go into the other ways in which things were headed in the right direction, and so many of those turned around, and not only in the right direction in the people at the top, but for the people at the bottom. when you have been writing about these issues as long as you have, you're afraid you're sounding like a broken record. 1984, and 1960's in it is pathetic that i will be bashing the 1960's now, but doggone it, they have a lot to apologize for. [laughter] when robert putnam, bless his heart, a wonderful scholar, i admire his work enormously, he takes all of thes