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Deborah:
Thanks for the pleasant trip back to a simpler time. I grew up with the same liberties and freedoms.
Why all the fear mongering in this country? Is it profitable? Yes.
We not only have a 'drug' crisis, we now have a 'mental health' crisis and untold numbers of kids are about to be dx and put on addictive and dangerous 'drugs' right in the midst of the 'war on drugs'.
I'm glad I was able to swing it so my kids could experience some of those very simple pleasures of being young and being human.
The Liger:
I don't know about the whole "villifying" thing (did I even spell that right?) but I think each generation has the whole "back in my day" attitude. My parents smoked the same shit I smoked, drank the same shit I drank, and had...okay, they only had sex once and they didn't like it, they just did it for purposes of procreation. Actually, one of the things my mom used to say was, "At least we had the decency to hide it from our parents."
But what's my point? Oh, they were fine, I am fine, and the crazy kids nowadays will be fine!
The Liger:
P.S. I really did not appreciate the counselor on Brat Camp pointing out that the teenagers were testing their boundaries and acting as though that was a bad thing. Isn't that how teenagers become adults?
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-07-28 21:58:00, The Liger wrote:
"P.S. I really did not appreciate the counselor on Brat Camp pointing out that the teenagers were testing their boundaries and acting as though that was a bad thing. Isn't that how teenagers become adults?
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I wish people would tell me when Im pushing their buttons. If Im fucking with someone, I like knowing if Im doing it right or not - and not having to wait for a big blowup at the end!
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-07-28 20:38:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Antigen,
I forgot add that I'm not backing down on my statement that 'each generation villifies its children.'
When growing up I saw Time magazine covers in the 1970s decrying the 'teen drug epidemic' and the 'national crisis' of 'teenage pregnancy.' I had do endure many an adult talk about 'kids these days...' Each generation of adults thinks the world is going to hell.
My Dad said the same thing happend in the 1950s when rock and roll was destroying the youth of America and turning them all into beatnicks. My Dad was born in 1930. He taught math in high school from 1953 to 1993. His opinion is that teens were just as nice in 1993 as they were in 1953 and saw no cause for alarm."
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Anon, I think we're pretty much on the same page here. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this goulish anti-offspring trend really got started. But I think Males' explanation makes more sense than anything else I've heard. The hippy generation, the summer of love and all that was, in large part, about accepting others w/ love as brothers and siters in one big happy family. In other words, black boys having a decent shot at white girls. This scare the living SHIT out of people like my parents!
So they sent the 3 youngest of us to a private Christian school w/ one token black family out of about 350 or so. There were no less drugs, no less sex going on, no real difference at all, except that my parents seemed to enjoy the illusion of safety. Same thing w/ affluence, I think. Every year, my rich uncle would invite my mom and a few other close friends to go w/ his family to Martha's Vinyard. That was the only time I had the freedom, as a teenager, to just go biking all day or go out to a movie at night (w/ my red headed, exceptionally white) cousins.
Seems the more that each generation intigrates the non WASP cultures, the more frightened the WASPie older generation is of their own kids. I think the Summer of Manson propaganda-fest was largely allegorical. The 'establishment' wasn't really worried about their own kids coming back to kill them, personally, w/ knives. They were worried about their old guard culture being killed off. In other words, they were and are wimps who lack faith in their own blood and culture to measure up to and to survive whatever comes down the pike.
All religion is dumb. It's one big story they're feeding you so you'll behave on Earth. If there is a god, then he's a prick.
--Howard Stern, American radio personality
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