See, I Told You So: Algore's Live Earth Bombs
Posted on 07/10/2007 12:10:03 AM PDT by goldstategop
ut such high-minded objections sail over the chief source of Live Earth's lameness. The acts were mostly fine. But the outrage and passion felt so prepackaged you half-expected Ludacris (who rapped about the evils of SUVs) to say "this moral outrage is brought to you by GE's 'Ecomagination.' " Indeed, one could say that Live Earth is proof that global warming has jumped the shark, except for the fact that the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark.
Madonna, Genesis, UB40, the Police, Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam), Crowded House, Duran Duran — these were among the headliners for this supposedly cutting-edge extravaganza. I listened to these acts in high school more than 20 years ago — and some of them were already going gray by then. Phil Collins and Sting are 56. Cat Stevens is just shy of 60. The Rolling Stones didn't play Live Earth, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was because Mick Jagger needed a hip replacement.
Like the Rolling Stones, who define "graceful retirement" as drags on the oxygen tank between sets, these acts hawk youthful-activism nostalgia for the fans rich enough to pay for it.
Some argue that environmentalism has become a secular religion. Buying carbon offsets, they say, is the modern equivalent of purchasing indulgences for your sins from the Catholic Church. Live Earth certainly fit into that vision. The concerts seemed like Baptist hoedowns of yore, except now Gore is the Billy Sunday for the baby boomer booboisie.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Didn’t watch the concert. Didn’t want to heat up the atmosphere
with my TV, and didn’t want to make them generate more electricity
and use up my carbon offsets.
Oh, I also breath half as much as I used to in order
to release less C02. I also stopped passing flatus.
I do what I can.
I believe that is a picture of one of our buddy freepers in Texas. I remember that pic from his about page anyway.
Nope. That’s Will Farrell from the great “Cowbell” sketch on Saturday Night Live. He and Christopher Walken were HY-LARIOUS! Wish I had a link to it, but maybe you can find it on YouTube or someplace similar. Can any Freepers help? I can’t look at work.
SNL Blue Oyster Cult/Cowbell scketch. Classic. MORE COWBELL!
Would you care to elaborate for a guy so old he can remember when sex was dirty and the air was clean.
You got part right. Only sycophantic, earnest, self righteous dweebs listen to politically correct propaganda with anything but disgust. That isn’t to say that the rest of the younger generation is becoming conservative however. Conservative politicians act pretty much the same as socialist politicians. Example A: Bush. All are slaves to special interests and only interested in robbing individuals of their freedoms and in further regulating society.
BTW, if you notice which acts participated in Live Earth, they are all either old or boring. No one interested in a good time is going to waste a Saturday being preached to by a bunch of boring old has beens. Thats why only potato heads went to Dead Earth.
I watched a few minutes of Live Earth several times during Saturday, and the music was extremely dull, the audiences were dull, the cameramen feeding the videos to their producers were dull.....
How Algore sold this mess to owners/operators of venues, and to corporate sponsors, tells me that politicians are not the only slaves to special interests.
Yes, the things you described are sickening, and no generation is exempt from sin. The boomers as a group had it fairly easy compared to the WWII generation - the 1950's vs. the 1930's. I believe all this is obvious, however, and won't comment further. Sorry for not stating the caveat...
A higher percentage of Boomers are more conservative than the younger generation. In fact the latest polls show that the younger generations are far more tolerant of deviant social pathologies than are Boomers. In the last two presidential elections the majority of Boomers voted for Bush. The majority of Gen Xers voted for Gore and Kerry. Check you figures again.
And furthermore teenagers or people in their early twenties are not driving forces in anything except maybe popular culture (music and tv). The previous generations passed the flawed 1964 civil rights bills which sparked much of the present social problems. None of the major leftist figures of the sixties who injected drugs and Marxist actions into the American scene were Boomers. That was the older generations who did that. Boomers had little or no influence on what went on politically in the sixties.
Define spoiled the hell out of. How would you know how many Boomers were spoiled? I don't know where you lived, but I didn't know any Boomers who were "spoiled the hell out of". You're making a judgment with little basis in fact. I will admit that today's Boomers have spoiled the hell of out many of their children judging by what my brothers and sisters have done with their children.
It is natural for people who have reached a mature age to be more conservative than younger, less affluent people. But this group of boomers, facing retirement certainly did not help the president change the Social Security system to make it viable for future retirees, did they.
I was responding to another Freeper’s query about America’s future. And I was thinking about today’s college and high school age kids, not the Gen-x’ers.
Regarding the influence of the Boomers starting in the sixties, the Class that graduated in 1965 were the first of the wave of post-war babies to reach maturity. With each graduation class the looming draft letter became the dominant thought in everyone’s minds, and affected every male American’s plans. Of course, the boomers did not hold power then, but their objection to the draft ended America’s involvement in Vietnam.
On the flip side, we now have among the boomers, millions of Vietnam war veterans and their wives and families, who will not allow our current warriors to be disrespected, and who largely support our efforts to fight Islamofascism.
To take one point from your post: “In fact the latest polls show that the younger generations are far more tolerant of deviant social pathologies than are Boomers.”
Whose responsibility is that? These children have been subjected to the education system and the entertainment system fashioned by
ta da
BOOMERS!
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