That is awesomely cool. Until it reached the “reversal” I was wondering “WTF” and in the second half I had tears in my eyes.
Very Clever, the rubes at AARP came up with that?
I’ve often wondered how different, if there is a difference, a generation that grows up relatively materially deprived is from one that grows up materially inundated. Anybody know if there’s a study some place out here?
After all the horrific things that have happened in the last eight years I think it’s easy to become somewhat emotionally numb. We perhaps all get more cynical as we get older – but who doesn’t hope for a better world for the generations to come after us? (Don’t think I really want an answer to that.)
wow…that was brilliant.
As someone of the “lost generation,” I can sympathize with that sentiment. I was born in 1988 so most of my “growing up” took place during the Bush years. Its hard to understand why my generation is so passive–so many of my friends didn’t even vote in the last election, citing that “it’s not like my vote matters,” or “I don’t care about politics.” It’s so infuriating.
Obviously I wasn’t around during the 60’s when there was rioting and protest for equal rights and withdrawing from a pointless war, but I wish I could see just as much enthusiasm and drive earlier generations had in my own. Granted those were some violent times, but don’t a people who trade liberty for security deserve neither?
For Medicare on Sunday morning. Against Medicare on Monday morning.
When a democrat is for something before he’s against it – that’s flip-flopping, but as with so many other things – IOKIYAR. What’s with this Expanding Medicare – ‘
a plan for financial ruin’ B.S.? Do they always have to be such drama queens? Sorry, of course they do fear is one of the few things the GOP has left in its quiver.
Wow, clever twist. Makes me proud to have finally caved and joined AARP, after they got so much heat for supporting health-care reform.
Mizuki, your teen years came during George W. Bush’s presidency; mine came during Richard Nixon’s. In the 1970s, American culture soured and turned unashamedly shallow and self-centered. Unfortunately, when my generation came of age, we became the Yuppies of the 1980s, and our cultural and political decline only accelerated.
Sometimes I think mine was the “lost generation,” and yours– our children’s– may be stuck with cleaning up our mess; so I am never one to shake my head and say, “You kids today!” A wise person I know recently pointed out that your generation actually mentors mine when it comes to technology; I’ve come to believe that you can teach us other kinds of lessons as well.
That is awesomely cool. Until it reached the “reversal” I was wondering “WTF” and in the second half I had tears in my eyes.
Very Clever, the rubes at AARP came up with that?
I’ve often wondered how different, if there is a difference, a generation that grows up relatively materially deprived is from one that grows up materially inundated. Anybody know if there’s a study some place out here?
After all the horrific things that have happened in the last eight years I think it’s easy to become somewhat emotionally numb. We perhaps all get more cynical as we get older – but who doesn’t hope for a better world for the generations to come after us? (Don’t think I really want an answer to that.)
wow…that was brilliant.
As someone of the “lost generation,” I can sympathize with that sentiment. I was born in 1988 so most of my “growing up” took place during the Bush years. Its hard to understand why my generation is so passive–so many of my friends didn’t even vote in the last election, citing that “it’s not like my vote matters,” or “I don’t care about politics.” It’s so infuriating.
Obviously I wasn’t around during the 60’s when there was rioting and protest for equal rights and withdrawing from a pointless war, but I wish I could see just as much enthusiasm and drive earlier generations had in my own. Granted those were some violent times, but don’t a people who trade liberty for security deserve neither?
For Medicare on Sunday morning. Against Medicare on Monday morning.
When a democrat is for something before he’s against it – that’s flip-flopping, but as with so many other things – IOKIYAR. What’s with this Expanding Medicare – ‘
a plan for financial ruin’ B.S.? Do they always have to be such drama queens? Sorry, of course they do fear is one of the few things the GOP has left in its quiver.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/republicans-forced-to-rev_n_384680.html
Wow, clever twist. Makes me proud to have finally caved and joined AARP, after they got so much heat for supporting health-care reform.
Mizuki, your teen years came during George W. Bush’s presidency; mine came during Richard Nixon’s. In the 1970s, American culture soured and turned unashamedly shallow and self-centered. Unfortunately, when my generation came of age, we became the Yuppies of the 1980s, and our cultural and political decline only accelerated.
Sometimes I think mine was the “lost generation,” and yours– our children’s– may be stuck with cleaning up our mess; so I am never one to shake my head and say, “You kids today!” A wise person I know recently pointed out that your generation actually mentors mine when it comes to technology; I’ve come to believe that you can teach us other kinds of lessons as well.
Thanks joanr16, I hope you’re right