Posted on 04/21/2006 11:54:15 AM PDT by Incorrigible
What has this woman been smoking?
People just love to look at themselves in mirrors.
More confident because they weren't the providers of trash reading, didn't waste a decade of their lives conjuring it, and are more miserable for being pounded with it via someone who focus's like a LASER beam on information that is worthless except for bending minds and self gratification.
Let's not blame this on the men of generation X. We aren't avoiding marriage because it interferes with our online gaming. In America the laws regarding marriage are stacked against men. How many times would you cross the street if there were more than a 50% chance you weren't going to make it to the other side?
I am an X'er and almost all of my friends are of the same generation. I have friends who wish to have families but they can't find any American women in their late 20's, who want to settle down. The gals are all too busy chasing the 10% of American men they find desirable, building "careers" and partying. I have been approached by women in their mid-30's who have one or two illegitimate children and a sexual history twice as long as the coolest jock I knew in High School. Not interested thanks. Feminism wanted women to act like the worst caricatures of men and to destroy the family. Mission accomplished!
Instead of risking (another) marriage to an American woman, (who initiate 70% of the divorces in the US and who have everything to gain by it), I and many of my friends have decided to concentrate on building enough wealth to retire while we are young enough to enjoy it somewhere more man friendly.
This is so true and we've paid a huge price that has really begun to set in. For example, I knew a woman who had six, yes six abortions, was totally materialist, spent most her money on nice clothes, nice cars, she binge ate then threw it all up. She had at best one two year long relationship with a man that ripped her off. According to her she was empowered. Last year she died from cancer at age 40 with nor real relationship. This woman considered herself a Buddihist and very spiritual. But she screwed people over all the time. To the end she voted Democrat.
Seeing this all around me eventually brought me back to conservative values and believing in God. I was a latch key kid and man, when the solution of God was offered to me, it was like finally having a guiding parent and some stability. I wonder if some of this is true for the generations that follow and partially explains the movement back toward religion-the stability, love and esteeming values that where so attacked when we grew up. Also my generation have aborted so many babies as a birth control method, I just want to cry when I think of it and what our nation and the world has lost from all this selfish self centered destruction. /rant
No wonder my HS class was the smallest in a long time....('87)
I think it is. More and more of my generation are turning back to the values of their grandparents and great-grandparents. Which of course were Faith, Family, and Country.
Have you heard the term, "Crunchy Conservatives"? It is a book that is out about how many in our generation are returning to a more simple life, etc...
Do a search on that word or "Crunchy Cons" here on FR and read what you can about it. I agree with most of what I have read. I hope the trend continues.
BTW...I am so glad you came back to the one and true Father. Welcome Home.
ROFL!
Oh heavens! My, my oh my, you beast!
"Spare the rod...."
Why, why...the most Reverend Dr. Spock ruled that mentality out long ago! :-o
"More confident because they weren't the providers of trash reading, didn't waste a decade of their lives conjuring it, and are more miserable for being pounded with it via someone who focus's like a LASER beam on information that is worthless except for bending minds and self gratification."
Damn right. "Entitled to success without working for it"
That sounds mysteriously like SocialSecurity, and we all damn well know that GenX was, like, totally responsible for creating _that_ program.
Yeah. Personally I blame the Gen-X'ers for that.
People just love to look at themselves in mirrors.
True again. While I'm sure there are hordes of people more self-absorbed than myself, what's in it for me?
I understand completely what you are saying. (I am a female by the way). But have you ever tried finding a lady at your church, or place of worship?
Thanks so much! I just looked up the Crunchy Conservatives book and read an excerpt. It completely resonates. I hope it continues as well. I really appreciate the acknowledgment it made me tear up. :-)
You are more than welcome.
Hmmm... but, wait:
Born in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, they are the children of baby boomers, who she says were incorrectly considered the most self-focused generation.
Ahh, so maybe the only reason I'm not brash, cynical, lonely, anxious, and with a sense of entitlement is because my folks were a little too old to be boomers (1942 and 1943)? Or maybe vast over-generalizations are just that...
My immediate thought was the same as yellowdoghunter's. That seems like a perfect place for many reasons, the least of which is being with someone that has solid core values that one can rely on and trust to help build a loving, lasting relationship. Money can only replace that spiritual and relational place for only so long in my experience.
Who can understand what they do or say?
Why can they be like we were -- perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?
I weep for the future.
Sounds like a lot of people are in for a very rude awakening.
It ought to be fun to watch.
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