When We Grew Up Children Played Outside! And Adults Had Pubic Hair!

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When We Grew Up Children Played Outside! And Adults Had Pubic Hair!

Edited on Sun Jan-03-10 12:02 AM by 20score

One of the oddest things I have noticed on-line, besides Glenn Beck followers pretending they know the Constitution, is cross generational fights between ideological allies. Now there have been people talking about �the younger generation� for centuries, if not millennia. And the reverse also holds true, there have been young people complaining about their elders for just as long. Some of it is legitimate, like when someone younger complains about the past generation wiping out a culture or a species. That�s legit. Or when an adult criticizes teens for vandalism and violence. But those are still individuals at fault and not everyone of a particular age group.

During the 2000 election, Bush and Gore were portrayed in the media as representing two sides of the fight about the Vietnam War. The same thing was said in 2004 about Bush and Kerry, only to a lesser extent. Strangely enough, the two people who actually served, Gore and Kerry, were representing those who opposed the war, and were for social justice. The one who was for the war � and a subsequent war of his choosing � didn�t see combat. But the media didn�t dwell on the hypocrisy of Bush - that would just complicate the story line. But at least it does prove the extremely obvious, because all three were of the same generation. It�s not the whole generation that should get the blame - or credit.

When I was growing up there were children that would become outraged and have genuine hate in their eyes because a bus passed by from a rival school. �I hate those kids from school x!� they would say. �If your parents bought a house three blocks away, you�d be going to that school,� I�d point out. �Well, they didn�t,� or something close was the usual response. It�s the same type of knee-jerk reaction of the children and rival schools as it is between rival generations. And it makes no sense to generalize to the extent I�ve read and heard. If what has been said of the up-and-coming generations were true all through the millennia, we would have devolved into feces throwing, public masturbating, cannibalistic monkeys by now. And while that may be true of some Teabaggers, it doesn�t hold true for the whole species.

�You punks can�t even pull up your pants.� �You guys didn�t solve anything, you just bitched until the war was over.� (A lot of truth in that one, at least for some like Horowitz and Savage.) �Your generation is so damn lazy.� �Your generation caused all this.� Well no, people caused all of this. Greedy, stupid, shortsighted, apathetic people - not a generation.

Now I really don�t have a dog in this fight because I was born too late for the Vietnam War and to be part of the Woodstock Generation. (But they did have the best music.) And far too early to resent that generation; but I do feel there should be a unity amongst those that want to make things better in their fight against those bent on making things worse. So unless you can point to your particular generation standing up against the status quo, with 100% unity, or can say with a straight face that my generation was beyond reproach in all areas, you don�t have a case against the prior/upcoming generation, and maybe you should just join your natural allies.