Reply #54: Too much Peter Pan

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Its easier to divide and conquer if the masses have their asses planted firmly in front of the teevee. Marx said religion is the opiate of the people. It used to be, now its teevee.

I was sitting talking to my dad, a WWII vet, the other day. Althogh I rebelled against him in the 60s, I now realize his generation had a lot more class than mine (the boomers) do.
They dressed well, they had GREAT music (they invented "hip") and they got along well with each other, segregation not withstanding. They weren't singing songs about 9mm's, copkilling and slapping bitches around as a proper thing to do. Sure they were pushed into more heavily defined male female roles, but I don't think people are any happier now you can change you sex whenever you feel like it.
You never hear many of those Depression kids whining about their lot, they really know how to make do. They take responsibility. Theyre mostly not married to the teevee.
Most of all they knew how to grow up and look adult. When they went out they dressed up. We boomers are still too much Peter Pan--you got boomers atill pretending to be teenagers, dressing like them, talking like them. we're jealous of our own kids youth. Thats what the Harleys and "Men's Toys" are all about. Umm, mature men (and women) don't play with toys? You'd never convince my generation about that, its ALL about playing with toys now we can afford them. The Greatest Generation knew that lfe is not about accumulating and playing with toys
And our kids are just as bad if not worse. It took my son 6.5 years to get a bachelors degree, which everyone else in my family got in 4 years, because he just fucked off. He finally finished when I threatened to jerk his funding. NOw he's unemployed a year after graduating with a liberal arts degree.
And their music is worse than ours--ours was about peace an love--theirs is about carjacking and killing. I don't let that "music" be played in my house. Nothing pisses me off more than a bunch of middle class white kids talking ghetto, something else my dads generation never did.