You don’t want to count on age and wisdom beating immaturity, eh? You have a point. But the way this generation has been raised, they won’t be willing to lift a finger anyway.
I think we’ll be fighting liberals our own age.
I just want the older folks around for the rebuilding.
“But the way this generation has been raised, they won’t be willing to lift a finger anyway.”
True, but I think it might be hard to judge what happens when peoples’ backs are against the wall. If there is some type of social breakdown, I don’t think it will be like any kind of revolution we see in other countries. Some strongman voting himself in for life, or an uprising happening from political agitation, I don’t think we are quite there yet. I can only see it happening here as some kind of spontaneous reaction to economic collapse or something that forces everyone’s lives to change. That would cure apathy really fast, and then who knows what people are capable of?
“I just want the older folks around for the rebuilding.”
Yeah, that would definitely be helpful. Half the young people I know don’t know basic stuff that is common knowledge to someone over 50. I mean “how to stop a toilet that keeps running before it overflows” type of stuff. No way they could rebuild anything, unless they were on the work gang getting told what to do.