Posted on 04/25/2007 4:18:43 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
As someone born in the same year, some thoughts:
We didn't fear nukes; they were simply an ever present "threat" that we digested along with strangers offering candy and playing with matches.
We don't fear terrorism; the intelligent among us recognize it as a threat to confront, not from which to cower.
I believe we are quite pragmatic (lending to some wonderfully biting sarcastic wits among us). Childhood was grand. Graduating from college in '91 wasn't the greatest timing, but I'm doing well.
12 years until Medicare is sucked dry.
24/7 “bad news, all the time” is an excuse, not a cause. One can ALWAYS turn the news off.
Simply enough, the problem is that:
A swaddled, coddled populace is a neurotic populace... for they simply cannot deal with reality, having been consistantly insulated from it.
A reality they face even time they walk out of their homes.
Then... maybe there is hope for the future.
:-P
And the parents of the kids of ‘87 worried about the ‘latch-key’ effect. IE - having young children (kindergarten-elementary school age) go to school in the mornings and come home in the afternoons without any parental supervision.
Something that in today’s world, is now a crime. And the children are nowaday confiscated from their parents ‘for their own good’, of course.
And let’s not forget the drug pushers in the school parking lots. Etc et al.
Though, it’s true that today’s youth do have to deal with a pro-homo, pro-Muslim agenda in the schools today.
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