I compare my childhood in the ‘50’s with that of today. It brings a tear to my eye, but worse, there’s no way to communicate it to the youth of today. It is a good time to be old.
“I compare my childhood in the ‘50’s with that of today. It brings a tear to my eye, but worse, there’s no way to communicate it to the youth of today. It is a good time to be old.”
Pitiful: People across the street were having a party. There were a lot of newish compact cars and CUV’s parked. These were actually kids having a party with mom+pop out of the house. The cars belonged to all of their parents!
When I was in high school, you would have more cred driving in your own $500 beater than in mom and dad’s station wagon, particularly if you were a young man.
No question at all, the “world” of young people today is going to be much, much smaller and poorer than ours was. Mobility was the great advantage of the American workforce over everyone else. Now, not so much.
Instead of getting into a pointless discussion on this thread about the intelligence or other attributes of Generation Y, I'd offer something else for everyone to consider, in light of a conversation I've had with some of these Gen-Y folks in my company ...
Maybe a lot of younger people aren't interested in getting a driver's license because their parents never cultivated a desire to go out and drive somewhere?
Darn tootin'. With any amount of luck we'll be out of here when the SHTF, and it will, and it won't be pretty.
“I compare my childhood in the ‘50’s with that of today. It brings a tear to my eye, but worse, there’s no way to communicate it to the youth of today. It is a good time to be old.”
It really seemed like a golden age to have been a kid was from the 50s to 9-11.
I feel really bad that the world just stopped allowing them to be children. Selfish adults robbing kids of needed innocence.