Comments on: Can this generation be saved?

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:05:36 +0000

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.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:52 +0000

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.

By: Tonestaple

Tonestaple — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:11:29 +0000

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.

By: NavyOne

NavyOne — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:57:01 +0000

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.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:56:59 +0000

What Danny said.

By: JKB

JKB — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:30:16 +0000

”meat isn’t green”

Obviously they attend private school.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:58:31 +0000

Methinks that economic realities will soon intrude upon the delusions of the children of Liberal/Left suburbian utopias. It will be good for them.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:38:32 +0000

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.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:26:19 +0000

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’.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:46:54 +0000

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?