Posted on 04/25/2007 4:18:43 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Don’t believe me? Tune into an episode of South Park. You may not like the crudeness and cursing, but there is a good message in every episode.
Yeah - he turned 91 last month and passed his driving test, no less!!!
Did somebody say POLIO?
The comparison is 21 in ‘37 like my dad was vs. 21 in ‘77 and I’m just a little older than that. ‘77 was a lot better.
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What about Galveston, 1900? Wasn't that worse?
One of my grandfathers was a machine-gunner during The Great War; one time I was talking to him when he was about 75, about five years before he died, and he remarked that he was glad he wasn't going to be around to see what was coming up.
We were also dancin' the night away in '37, doing the Big Apple, the Balboa, the Truck, and a step called peckin'.
We also had better music in '37. I'd take swing bands led by Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby, or Ina Rae Hutton, sweet bands conductred by Eddy Duchin, Shep Fields, or Guy Lombardo, the Western swing sound of Bob Wills, Cliff Bruner, or Smoky Woods & His Wood Chips, and vocalists such as Judy Garland or Bing Crosby over the Sex Pistols, Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots, and other 1970's acts.
Don’t forget the San Francisco Earthquake. (See Post 9).
I didn't!
And some succumbed to the influenza, which took millions of lives in 1918. Some say it killed as many people as the war did.
No argument about the music - the depression and war kind of trumps that, though.
I surely hope you do. I have a 16 and 15 year old, I raise them to take personal responsibility and I do not go along with the PC BS. Luckily, I live in an area that is very conservative so it isn’t so hard to drive the points home.
What about Galveston, 1900? Wasn't that worse?
The Galveston hurricane, which killed about 6,000, was worse, as was the Lake Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, which killed about 2,000.
If a twenty-something can’t easily buy a house —— and that’s a nice 2- or 3- bedroom with a yard in a good neighborhood —— he’s looking in the wrong area. There are plenty of homes in America that are affordable. Under $25k. You just won’t find them if you live in an area where the cheapest home is $400k. Get in the car, young man, and seek your dream.
“If a twenty-something can’t easily buy a house —— and that’s a nice 2- or 3- bedroom with a yard in a good neighborhood —— he’s looking in the wrong area. There are plenty of homes in America that are affordable. Under $25k. You just won’t find them if you live in an area where the cheapest home is $400k. Get in the car, young man, and seek your dream.”
That as one point I was thinking of, that getting started is a lot harder these days, but you’re right - if you insist on living in LA, SF, Miami, NYC, forget it. But if you move to the fly over states, it’s a lot better...if there’s jobs.
I think every generation has it’s hurdles, but it’s how they tackle them (if they do at all) is what defines them. The “greatest generation” (and an apt title that is) rose to the challenge and built the foundations of prosperity after the wars. Ever since, each generation has lost sight of that, and gotten more and more pampered.
The generations we’re raising now will be utterly useless, as they are not allowed to see anything negative, suffer any defeat, and are coddles and cucooned to the point that they are unsufferable to deal with. That will change, and probably throug strife and chaos, like another 9-11 attack, or a greater war breaking out, or the unthinkable, warfare on our soil. The future generations have their own hurdles, which they are being discouraged actively by their boomer overlords (gotta love that term) from approaching, and they also have the mess the boomer overlords have made - just in terms of the economy and the IOUs the boomer overlords have taken out on their dime alone is a monumental task.
The future generations have their work cut out for them, and some day it will be sink or swim for them. How will they fare? That’s a very good question...one we could answer more readily if we actually were in the process of preparing them for it.
The article seems to be asking “are things worse for todays generation”? and then answering “not really”.
Every generation has their own pleasures, problems and challenges.
Roger that and as another FReeper pointed out, they suffered the 1918 flu pandemic too.
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