Posted on 11/26/2005 3:11:47 AM PST by Neville72
A GENERATION HAS passed since I went to college. Today's college students understand that things have changed in many ways — some good, some not. But one change is glaring and tragic. The change I mean is that nowadays so many students are obsessed with their careers. (This is strictly my own personal observation — as a college teacher of long-standing, and of declining optimism.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I hated the 60's and all of it's 'spawn'...
Why does the LA Times even bother ?
Did you even read the entire article you posted? He is lamenting the loss of the days when college-educated women stayed home to raise their children! He is pointing out that feminism has equated powerful corporate positions with success as a human being.
What is liberal about that?
Here is another column by our favorite essayist. Ignore the comments from some here, as they obviously haven't read the article.
Amen - Gelerntner is not mourning the passing of the late Sixties like some burned-out hippie leftover might.
But - the social and political upheaval after around 1966 had been immediately preceeded by decades of family-centered values.
How were those cast aside so suddenly and completely?
Gelerntner is not the only one to still not know.
"The change I mean is that nowadays so many students are obsessed with their careers."
Translation: Damn it, why won't as many of these young let us misinform them!
I would ask the Mods to change the title--this writer is not a "Liberal Puke" and his article is not what you imply.
I lived through the campus demonstrations (went back to school in 1972) and all of the subsequent social changes as a young woman.
Looking back, I can see that a great deal of it was media driven, with a concerted effort by the left to USE the media to shape public opinion. I imagine the effect was even more pronounced in places far from Indianapolis, but it was felt even here.
Remember the Time magazine covers of that era? God is dead. The rise of the youth culture. The new woman. Constant mocking of traditional values, constant feeding the rebellious nature of youth, constant efforts to undermine the family. They succeeded to a certain extent, and our society is the poorer for it.
Now the effort is being made to portray all people of my generation as selfish Boomers who never cared about anything but themselves. Again the media tries to undermine family ties, sow discord, and mock anything good in this country. They are systematically trying to undermine confidence in the military, traditional Christianity, scouting, etc.
That's my opinion, anyway. Gelertner is right. We won't go back to 1960, but we are not necessarily a better nation because of the "progress" we thing we have made.
The 60's was the ugly decade.
What the 60's got right?? Ummmm, well, I was born in 1969. So that worked out ok.
;-)
"I hated the 60's and all of it's 'spawn'..."
You must love the ads for "Ameriprise", which is apparently promoting itself as a financial planning agency for old Hippies. The ads feature footage of dancing flower children and hippie music. I can't wait for one of these A-holes to call me looking for business. I'll tell them what to do their hippie ad campaign.
The only good thing to come out of the 60's was the miniskirt.
In our family, we had the privilege of having my wife stay home to educate our children all the way thru high school. Since the youngest left home last summer, we have said over and over that we would do it exactly the same way if we had to do it again. BTW, my wife has a master's degree.
The 60's were a vast test of psychology using a huge number of lab rats in human form. What happens when we abolish most moral restrictions (against sexual behavior that does not lead to monogamous family formation, against use of hallucinatory drugs for recreational purposes, against civil obedience), and just let the mind unfold?
We get some pretty weirdly formed thought patterns, that's what. Unable or unwilling to form logical conclusions, some pretty bizarre beliefs spring up among these newly feral creatures that were born human, and were transformed into parodies of humanity.
After these prolonged tests, it is found that the lab rats can no longer be allowed among the normal population of rats, as the more normal rats set upon them and either drive them into isolation, or cause the ones that remain to conform to the basic norms of the rest of the population.
You're right, of course, that the media-aided counterculture partially succeeded in negatively transforming our society for all time.
I too, graduated from high school in 1966. However, I attended The Citadel. Four years of military culture mostly insulated us as cadets from the youth `revolution' which seemed to be happening in a far distant land.
But look around - the military is popular like not since WWII. Evangelical Christianity is resurgent. Liberals no longer dominate but must contend toe-to-toe with conservatives on every point (though the Academy is hostage to the far Left). The USSR is gone, and our most dangerous enemy is a religion, not an ideology.
Only The New York Times regards the late Sixties as a `golden age'.
I half smirk, and half sneer, every time i see that
commercial..."They're not going out like that!"...
Hah!
and the Space Program ...
I responded that it was such a time of upheaval, division, hatred that I considered it the worst decade of my life (I graduated hs in '65)
she was kind of shocked.
Things the 60's got right.....cool cars (not as many as the 50's but there were several), James Bond books and soul music....the rest can go in the dumpster....
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