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| The Age of Adolescence |
| 2010-12-01 |
| One of the great themes of the 1960s was to “do your own thing.” But usually “liberation” distilled down to creating your own rules and norms to justify allowing the appetites and passions to run free, while offering some sort of exalted cover for being either gross or mediocre — or both. The hip generation that came of age talked about a new, perpetually youthful world that would supplant the values and aspirations of a fading bankrupt establishment (e.g., cf. Bob Dylan’s “the order is rapidly fading”). And in time the promise of the sixties, in fact, did permeate the last half-century, creating a contemporary culture of perpetual adolescence, of defying norms and protocols without offering anything much in their place. ...Unfortunately, our parents are dead. So who cleans up the messes? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 BTW, the biggest mess is in Europe - I.E., the "European Union", "European Parliament", and "World Court". The United Nations is also trying its best to do some stupifying dictation, RE "climate change". They don't seem to want to understand the Chinese wisdom, "this, too, will change". Perhaps we're not using a big enough clue-bat... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-12-01 14:00 |
| #2 Not all of us were "free-love" idiots, and clean up our own messes. Unfortunately, we're definitely in the minority. We attempted to clean up the mess with the 2010 election. The next two years will show whether that was possible or not. I do pray it IS possible, because the alternative is very, very messy. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-12-01 13:57 |
| #1 > So who cleans up the messes? The children of the senile tend to be the ones who clear up their parents mess. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-12-01 06:52 |