| I was born in 1946. I am the Vietnam generation. We were not coddled. We were educated. There is a difference.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 integrated schools and they have gone to hell ever since.
It is not that the Blacks brought the level down - Washington instituted policies that brought both Blacks and Whites down.
It is not accidental. My generation went to the streets because we actually knew what was going on.
This generation has been dumbed down and perverted by Madison Avenue. All the corporate ologarchies value is consumerism - blind, dumb, mindless, shallow consumerism.
The Charles Manson affair was a godsend ( or plan) for the Nixon conservatives. The "peace and love" culture threatened the whole fabric of corporate deceit and military-industrial murder for profit.
Manson scared all the doctors, lawyers, Indian Chiefs, movie stars and other rich people.
hippies became demons to be feared.
It immediately turned into polyester, disco-duck land, and we have been worshipping gold ever since.
My generation evolved into the neocoms, serial-killing military hawks, corporate thieves, Enron victims, and ignorant wage-slaves working so hard they don't even know there is a war - or care.
The younger generation is undereducated, overworked, battered and lost.
I took a writing class at USF and we traded papers with other classmates. Current high school graduates are semi-literate at best. I passed an English Diagnostic test to get into the English program at USF thirty years after graduating high school. I know current high school graduates who cannot pass that test and have tried several times.
The professor was my age. I asked him how he could give a "B" to a paper like that. He said he got a lot of pressure from the front office to keep the seat filled. Period.
Sad.
I have gone to college on and off since 1965. I have many degrees and love to learn. I always enjoy seeing eighty year old people in class. The lust for life, learning, understanding, and improving ones own life is apparently a rare gift.
America provided the opportunity for the "natural aristocracy" to excel to the stars.
The problem is, not everyone can compete. IQ tests acknowledge the different levels of abilities of humans.
It is not fair - but we want it to be.
That is the reason so many take drugs - to kill the pain of failure.
We need to value people for what they can do. Not punish them for what they can't do.
If that became our paridigm ( I hate that word - it means model), it would solve a lot of problems.
It works against our corporate-greed model.
DUH!!!!
Peace and Love?
Charlie Manson?
War?
Helter Skelter?
Happiness is a warm gun?
Imagine - all we need is love! |