As a 71 year old I can attest to a lot of what this is about- and no, I'm not complaining, just explaining what I see with regularity- the results are not for me to worry about but the younger people will have to live with the decisions they make today- all of them, just as people my age have to. Our society doesn't respect age- and maybe we've not earned it, but, until that is illustrated individually, the broad brush of blaming somebody else will paint an ever broader swath- When it comes to old age, illness, and death, little remains to us of common meaning or shared social rituals.
Why do you think our society doesn't respect age? It seems to me that certain aspects of our culture are just harder to pull off at an advanced age.
Yeap...I don't know why he is crying in his Metamucil. His generation PROPERLY fucked the rest of us.
One thing I've always done is advocate reading before reacting- Our society doesn't respect age- and maybe we've not earned it, but, until that is illustrated individually, the broad brush of blaming somebody else will paint an ever broader swath- But, please don't let facts stand in the way of your need to illustrate your ignorance in public.
Can you be more specific? I don't just think, I know, our society doesn't respect age- I am one of the ones not respected and I am very observant of my surroundings- but, like I said, I'm not complaining, just explaining- younger people will have to live with their choices just like people my age have had to and those who came before me had to- our society has relegated old age to a nuisance status because people don't have the time to worry with it- did the chicken come before the egg? That's hard to say, but, the fact remains if you don't show respect you can't earn respect and if you can't earn respect you can't have self respect- without self respect you can't show respect- to my knowledge, the people I've shown a lack of respect to are few and far between- so somewhere, someone dropped the ball.
Those two are (metaphorically) typical trailer trash who want to blame everyone but themselves for their own and the country's problems.