[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[Vaquero]

(Vanity) A Generation of Children, or, President Hoover Electrolux

fixed it...the title ain't html

[grey_whiskers]

Time for more birdcage liner! /thread-pimp>

Cheers!

[Tax-chick]

When I was a child, nobody would side with a disruptive child in public over the parents; in many places, the neighbors or bystanders would judge the parent for FAILING to discipline the child.

Oh, now they'll do both. Haven't you been on any threads about child-rearing? The same people who complain that children don't act like paragons in public also complain about any efforts made to teach proper behavior. I assume all children are supposed to be kept out of sight until age 21, at which point they can be released on society IF they're as perfect as the poster now is.

[pnh102]

Very good read.

[yankeedame]

...But there is a deeper significance to this. When the father does remonstrate against the high prices, he is not persuaded, nor reasoned with. The little girl goes right for th jugular. "I WANNA HOT DOG!!!"....

Two words: Time constraint.

This is, first and foremost, a radio ad. Billed by the second, ad cost money; therefore, it needs to be brief, to the point, "familiar" (who hasn't dealt with a bratty kid?), and memorable.

IOW, there isn't time in the ad. Let us not attribute a social malaise to what is, in fact, an economic creation/decision from a company simply trying to make a buck.

[Daffynition]

A thoughtful essay gw!

This has nothing to do with anything ... but thought you might allow me to park it here. Your kids will say, "I want one!":

The Electrolux Deathray.....

A modified Electrolux canister vacuum atop a Steelcase chair base. Made of steel, machined aluminum and acrylic, it stands 20 inches tall with a length of 54 inches. When fired from a trigger at the back of the gun, clear acrylic rods glow a bright ruby red, and a jet like sound comes from 6 German siren whistles powered by vacuum pressure. The sound can be adjusted with the variable pitch dial on the side. Watch the infamous DeathRay commercial here.

[bert]

......let it be noticed that the country has gone well downhill in many ways over the past 40-50 years......

This is your money sentence. Down hill is one view, miles away across a flat plain is another.

Away from what you ask?

The purpose of liberalism and of the current extremely successful quest for change is to move away from Victorian era morals and manners. The goal of liberalism is freedom from what is perceived as the regimented and stifling shackles of Christian moral ism.The progress of progressives is movement is away from Christian Victorian society.

If we can postulate evolving social structures based on the new protestant ethics and morals of the Reformation, the system peaked around the turn of the 20th century. Since that time there was a tendency to move away. All the old ways are rejected. All the old taboos are to be embraced and experienced. All the accumulated knowledge of cultural human history is to be disposed and trashed.

All the old ways are being replaced with the new ways constructed from thin air by the liberal enlightenment. It should be viewed as an irreversible fiat accompli.

The Liberal trend is successful and in the absence of massive blood shed irreversible. The only people willing to shed that blood are the radical fundamentalist Muslims of Al Queda and the Taleban.

[snarks_when_bored]

So again, how did we get away from it? I think the answer goes back to the 1960's, when the counterculture came into being.

Them damn hippies!