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The basic message seems to be that the current generations are soft, whiny, and worthless, and the great memories of childhood could easily have been brought back without the derogatory statements made towards those born in 1980 and beyond.
I'm familiar with the original author, and that's exactly the basic message he wanted to convey.
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Did what you have and worked for spring magically fully formed and with a value set in place, or are you worthless compared to my referenced born in 1915 grandmother? Her generation fought (and were killed and committed to mental institutions and beaten in the streets) for your right to vote. How would you feel if she discounted all you've done and accomplished and blamed you for everything that has gone wrong since the time you were born no matter how little control your generation actually had over the situation?
As I already stated, you can laud the accomplishments of your generation without degrading mine. Your generation was not perfect. Neither is mine. Mine is however, just as good as yours, and has/will accomplish just as much, and many of the things the OP blamed my generation for (the lawsuits, as an example) were actually perpetrated by your generation, not mine. I was still in elementary school when the whole 'let's sue because our kids got hurt' and 'let's sanitize the world' stuff started, and I was born in 1980. My generation didn't start that crap. My generation is actually the one getting sick and tired of that crap.
The basic message seems to be that the current generations are soft, whiny, and worthless, and the great memories of childhood could easily have been brought back without the derogatory statements made towards those born in 1980 and beyond.
I'm familiar with the original author, and that's exactly the basic message he wanted to convey.
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Did what you have and worked for spring magically fully formed and with a value set in place, or are you worthless compared to my referenced born in 1915 grandmother? Her generation fought (and were killed and committed to mental institutions and beaten in the streets) for your right to vote. How would you feel if she discounted all you've done and accomplished and blamed you for everything that has gone wrong since the time you were born no matter how little control your generation actually had over the situation?
As I already stated, you can laud the accomplishments of your generation without degrading mine. Your generation was not perfect. Neither is mine. Mine is however, just as good as yours, and has/will accomplish just as much, and many of the things the OP blamed my generation for (the lawsuits, as an example) were actually perpetrated by your generation, not mine. I was still in elementary school when the whole 'let's sue because our kids got hurt' and 'let's sanitize the world' stuff started, and I was born in 1980. My generation didn't start that crap. My generation is actually the one getting sick and tired of that crap.
Each generation has something to add, to give, to leave for the next. Some good, some bad...but don't start feeling all puffed up just yet. .
Pot, kettle, you know the story.
Your generation had strengths. It also had flaws. So does mine. Don't denigrate my generation to make yours seem superior.
Pot, kettle, you know the story.
Your generation had strengths. It also had flaws. So does mine. Don't denigrate my generation to make yours seem superior.
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