Can this generation be saved?
Bookworm on Oct 15 2009 at 4:36 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
In line at a Whole Foods in San Francisco, I found myself behind a gaggle of giggling girls wearing “stop global warming” t-shirts and backpacks festooned with buttons celebrating the fact that they are “proud community activists,” and socially responsible vegetarians (“meat isn’t green”). They were also flaunting Che buttons (I guess mass murder is the kind of community activism they support, and were loaded with iPods and various just purchased products on plastic containers (’cause it’s not climate changing waste if you really want it).
I think this young generation may be too self-center, ill-informed and illogical to save — and they’ll kiss kill us as they sink ever downwards.
(Typed on iPhone. Please forgive errors.)
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I’ve occasionally thought that perhaps we should encourage them to have their babies between the ages of 15 and 25, and then begin to educate them.
It starts in high school. My high school religion teacher was a woman named Kathy Kelly, google her name and Voices in the Wilderness, she was never condescending but I could tell having a rock ribbed conservative teenager in the class she was trying to indoctrinate was not ideal. At the end of the class she gave me two awards for being informed and something else. I appreciated it but I would have appreciated having an outspoken conservative teacher more.
Well, just remember…neither San Francisco and Whole Foods is totally representative of the whole U.S.
Although I’ve seen things in pretty small and remote towns that are pretty in-sync with the whole “progressive” kool-aid factory.
I’ve occasionally thought that perhaps we should encourage them to have their babies between the ages of 15 and 25, and then begin to educate them.
Interesting….I was thinking we should have their ‘green’ tubes tied, so that they don’t do additional damage, other than celebrate their greeness at Whole Foods with their Half Brains.
On the other hand, once they get the keys to their cars at 16, 17 or 18, I think the only green they will be focused on is the money to fill the tank.
The rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem is dressed in Abercrombie & Fitch and in constant electronic communication with Katy Perry and Jon Stewart.
=SIGH= I’m going to write to Dubyah and beg him to let me be a stablehand in Crawford. Is it too much to want to spend my waning years not surrounded by idiocy?
Generations save themselves. When you try to ‘save’ another generation, all you do is to make them dependents. Eventually this collapses the system and then more generations will need ‘saving’.
Here is Kids (What’s the Matter with Kids Today), from the movie Bye-Bye Birdie.
Not that I approve of unedited Che paraphernalia, mind you. I edited MY Che T-shirt to say, “Si sos hincha de Che, sos hincha de pelotudo sin cerebro.” (Translated from Argie slang and grammar: “If you are a fan of Che, you are a fan of a brainless idiot.”)
While there has always been a conflict of generations, this is more of a cultural conflict than a generational one. There are plenty of useful idiots of my generation who consider Che to be a hero and a secular saint.
Methinks that economic realities will soon intrude upon the delusions of the children of Liberal/Left suburbian utopias. It will be good for them.
Obviously they attend private school.
What Danny said.
I am an optimist when it comes to generational issues. Having worn many political stripes, it took real life to mug me and push me towards my current place.
Of course, I am not in the Bay Area. And while my parents were not big flag-wavers, they were always patriotic in the quiet sense.
I forget all the time that Seattle isn’t the whole country, and then I get very depressed. Then I remember places like Idaho and Texas and Tennessee still exist and my outlook improves.
In many cases, conservatives are liberals who got mugged by reality. Everyone is entitled to be stupid about something or things when young; it’s where the cliche “live and learn” comes from. All is NOT lost.
Tonestaple, that’s exactly how I feel in the Bay Area. When you’re in deep blue, it’s hard to imagine that there are sensible people elsewhere.
Re the Bay Area. I recall sitting in on a conversation among some middle-aged professionals some 4 decades ago in Berserkeley. One stated that Berserkeley 1970 could be compared to Renaissance Italy. No one in the group thought that statement might just indicate that Berserkeley was full of itself.