Posted on 03/24/2009 7:45:58 AM PDT by Tolik
Only an old fogey even uses a term like "old fogey" anymore. The current proper nomenclature is "Old A** Muthaf******"... usually with a couple of random, unrelated, misspelled words (usually with numbers in the place of vowels) worked in there for seasoning.
When I look at the current generation, it's clear to me that all the "old fogeys" that came before us were right... we really were going to hell. And now we've arrived.
If you need any real insight into todays culture, check out Chuck E. Cheese on pole-dancing night when they're giving away Lil' Wayne CD's.
If you go look at a high school textbook from say 1910, it’s unbelievable. Greek, Latin, classic literature; calculus. I’m not necessarily saying this is an essential part of a typical education program, but the level of study is orders of magnitude beyond what is taught today.
Jim, can we have this posted next to the "mission statement" for Free Republic?
...please??
Cheers!
My wife is interested in this kind of thing...
Cheers!
BTTT
Simple version...we are demoralized.
wow. He really is depressed. I’ve never heard him so negative.
I’ll cede #3 but #4 goes to the essence of multiculturalism and values. If that’s “old-fogeyism” then the West is death bound.
3.) A Certain Coarseness. We also are wearied by a certain crassness in American society in ways we have not seen before—or at least since the mid-19th century”
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I was temporarily buoyed by the people I encountered at the book signing of Levin’s book. Several thousand folks, all bright, articulate, friendly, civilized, well behaved, polite, earnest and motivated.
What a breath of fresh air that was!
Many are just in mourning for a death that is occuring before our eyes. I see people going through the motions of life.
It isn’t a sorrow for one thing, it is a sorrow for ourselves for not having what it takes or knowing where to start to destroy the cancer that is Washington, DC.
Freedom appears to be on the way out.
We can.
But they might not anymore: Hardline Saudi clerics urge TV ban on women, music: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5732oHtlBM6bVxcVIFhfbhjfn0QD9738O600
Ding Ding Ding!
At it’s like the people who do have a clue are wrong or mean for pointing it out.
When did bad manners and stupidity become the norm?
Late '80s/early '90s.
Wow. Excellent. Pinging for an interesting read, Red.
A very good read.
I personally believe the latter to be the case. Society must be in a depressed mood before an economic depression can find a foothold.
If the latter is true, our debt situation has played a role creating such a sense of depression, and increasing debt, personally or collectively, will not alter that perception, but ultimately add to the perception and lead to an ever deepening sense of depression throughout society.
I have seen where Mark Levin and Dick Morris have put on weight since Obamanation and so have I.
OBAMA IS MAKING US FAT!!!!!!!
Get him out.
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Meanwhile RipSawyer, out of step even as a boot camp marcher, proudly stays out of step by actually dropping a few pounds since the election. Obama is killing my appetite, he is making me sick to my stomach.
“The answer in one word: decadence.
We are victims of our own wealth — as a society we’ve learned to live with it, and to value it, but not to produce it.”
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Or, in other words, “It ain’t what you got, it’s how you feel about it.”
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