Posted on 02/13/2009 11:00:52 AM PST by sldghmr300
Why did the 60's Generation get it so wrong in so many areas of life?
We kids who grew up in the sixties were products of parents who were “The Greatest Generation” - and it breaks my heart to see what so many in our generation did to trash everything they were given by the hard work, love and generosity of that generation. The Sixties kids DIDN’T in general have to work as hard as TGG did, and that generation wanted us to have what we needed and to have the childhood they didn’t get to have. They educated us beyond our intelligence in many cases, and a lot of us got too big for our britches as a result. - The answer isn’t all that easy; it was a restless period of time and there are many explanations to the complex question of just why in the world did so many of the smart-aleck sixties’ kids end up as smart-aleck middle aged socialists. Hint: I think a lot of them started out as “lifetime” Democrats and just devolved into the crooked, corrupt, lying, socialists we see now. Also, LSD and all the rest of the drugs back then simply burned out some brains and left hollow shells that only look normal and human.
leave Elvis out of it!
Many goods have been repriced for the two income family.
some of us rebeled and then rebeled back
Well, that certainly hands me my erudite butt... :)
Few have the balls to point that out.
There’s some pretty good evidence that a lot of this did not just “happen” but that the KGB worked hard to make it happen.
I’m a baby boomer and I do get sick of people heaping blame on my generation for all the woes of the world.
I was not born with a silver spoon, I’ve worked since I was 12 years old (paper route), I volunteered for military service towards the end of a very unpopular war (Vietnam) that politicians that were members of the Greatest Generation would not allow us to win! Most members of the military during the Vietnam Era were volunteers from the baby boom generation.
Without the support of the baby boom generation, the Reagan Conservative Revolution would not have happened as well as the Republican Contract with America, brought to us by conservative politicians from the baby boom generation.
This generation sliming is totally counter-productive to uniting conservatives to the cause of guiding the Republican Party back to it’s conservative ideals, which win elections.
Yup, they were too easy on them. The greatest generation wanted their kids to have a better life but they did not make their kids work for it.
This is the refuse of public school education, which is the model for most private schools. No classics (maybe the Cliff Notes version), simplified musical and artistic tastes (I mean look at all the “junk” art littering our cities - no meaning, no context and obviously the result of a disturbed mind (I knew a master glass blower in college whose work, a single plate or goblet, sold for five thousand dollars or more. After a short while and plenty of drugs he turned to making shadow boxes filled with dirt and garbage and competely gave up glass blowing)), dumbed down teachers and lessons.
Homeschoolers are such a small minority. The only way I can see stemming this is forums like this were people learn basic economic truths and share them with others. Once you have to earn your own bread reality sinks in quickly.
If we become European in our outlook and how we treat failure, and we are getting super close, it is the end of it. We might even be there, but it sounds too pessimistic to say.
“Why does Spock have 6 fingers?”
It’s a Vulcan thing.
Ever see ‘Scrooged’? Though it punks the ending (making it a happy one), the point is made vividly: the antihero is inhuman because he never had any company but the cathode ray tube. He also had no other life. That is what it looks like, taken to extremes.
Interesting to consider that it was written by Michael O’Donoghue (ex-National Lampoon and serious pitch black attitude to life), who himself made his money off writing for the Tube.
I just got my tickets in the mail to see the Grateful Dead show coming up in April. I hope I’m not the oldest guy there.
The people on the magic box are pretending. Their only purpose is to build a market share which is in turn used to price and sell advertising time.
I could have written that post.
Tho mine said she had to find her own identity, not just Mrs. sldghmr
No complaints
IT WAS A JOKE!
The end of World War II saw the creation of an economic, technological and social anomaly.
A) With Europe in tatters, the U.S. rose to a world power based on manufacturing.
B)The GI bill sent an unprecedented number of Americans to college and into suburban homes.
C)The baby boom was unprecedented burst of kids being born, making them into a “market force” that companies pandered to in amazing ways.
None of the stuff arising from these huge forces could be sustained. It was uncharted territory.
I agree with Wildbill and 1010RD. Only recently have I heard about Gramscian tactics and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. I guess many of us learned about them, thanks to Obama’s connection to “community organizing”.
Now, it’s obvious that the ‘60’s generation were not “free thinkers” at all. They were sheep falling for Gramscian communist tactics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/823368/posts
Oh, you mean the kids that were sitting in the back seat when dad went to the gas station and said, "Gimmie a bucks worth of regular" while he had his windshield cleaned and oil checked?
The kids from the 60s now pay more a year in freaking gasoline to drive to work, than their parents bought their "new" homes for.
The kids that in later years bought homes where their monthly mortgage payments EQUALS THE TOTAL COST OF WHAT THEIR PARENTS PAID FOR HOMES?
You mean the kids of the 60s that now have no medical benefits, no retirement pensions, losing their jobs, investments and homes they paid a fortune for?
My parents purchased a brand new home, on ONE INCOME, Mom never had to work...
TRY THAT TODAY!
Good God!
Many goods have been repriced for the two income family.
LOL!
Ya mean everything became so damn expensive, mom and dad both have to work just to afford a cheap apartment today? We pay more for car insurance every 3 years than my folks paid for their first, *brand new home". Car insurance!
hahahahha
For celebrating pon far.
Very well said.
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