[small voice in the wilderness]

The baby-boomers are today’s grandparents. So now we have 3 generations of “MEMEME” and everyone wants to be the cool generation. It is pitiful to watch. Picture the grandfather, braided grey hair down to his waist, wearing Grateful Dead t-shirts and listening to Pink Floyd, probably still one toke over the line. Just how does a kid of 12 go to his grandfather for wisdom and advice? No, there are no more grown-ups. Anyone old enough to have heard “tune in, turn on, and drop out” probably did. And they are in charge of the memories to pass on to future generations? Hell, they were too stoned to remember anything of value.

[L98Fiero]

“Just how does a kid of 12 go to his grandfather for wisdom and advice?”

It’s men in general. Grandfather was likely a man in every sense of the word. That kind of man is denigrated in every fashion today. The common theme in all media today is, “man = dumb barbarian, woman = smart multi-tasker”. Media presented Family Hierarchy: Mom - Kids - Dad, when a Dad is even present.

Grandpa is now a comedic figure to be laughed at in this country. He’s the old non-PC codger that’s stuck in the corner while the fancy dinner party is going on. He’s exactly what it takes to hold this crazy place together, though.

No wisdom can be accumulated and passed down if “ME” is the center of the universe. Nothing can be learned if one thinks he was born with all he needed to know in the form of “feelings”.

We need grandpa back, in a bad way.

[quadrant]

In some places the situation is laughable. The University of California is Berkeley wanted to cut down a few trees to construct an athletic training facility. As might be expected a few radicals protested by camping out in the trees. The University put a fence around the area, and - believe it or not - most students ignored the protest. Support was forthcoming from another group. Many old hippies (who decided to end their days in Berkeley) rallied to help the protesters by bringing them food and water.
If a better example of arrested emotional development exists than the attitude of the aging hippies, I’d like to read about it.

[stand watie]

SOME of us didn't/weren't/won't. MOST of us who didn't were IN the military or IN a "helping profession" like medicine, fire service, LE or something similar, as we INSTINCTIVELY knew that "the Republic was in danger" & "did something about it", even then.

otoh, the LEFTISTS did "tune out". their elevators STILL don't go to the top floor. PITY.

free dixie,sw

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Anyone old enough to have heard “tune in, turn on, and drop out” probably did."

Ahem!

That one is a sweeper that I cannot let pass; there are many more of us that got on with life, trying to make a penny and get down the road.

Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" offered the free ticket that so many took for an easy ride through life.

Robert McNamara's betrayal of my generation with his and Johnson's cynical approach to Vietnam soured many also.

The one's you speak of are the perpetually noisy, indignant minority, always looking for an extension of their free ride ticket. They are not main stream.