great great rant. so true. i especially agree with the teacher thing, why are people that matter, people who educate children so they can make something of themselves, paid next to nothing while talentless movie stars and athletes are millionares and billionares?
Because people don't value teachers. Because teachers are paid in tax dollars or tuition dollars, and no one wants to pay higher taxes or higher tuition
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I AM growing up. A part of me wishes I could go back to my naiive childhood state but I know that my newfound knowledge of the world is part of life, and I can't shelter myself forever.
Thanks for the advice. I will keep it in mind.
By the way, I was reading your profile and I saw that you go to SLU. I live in St. Louis. Small world?
Funny how these online journals that fill the empty spaces in our lives can bring two people in the same city together in thought, isn't it? Embrace technology to find the most humanizing elements of it - and you are right to reject technologies that dehumanize us. I think you're onto something big, kiddo.
wow I loved your entry esp. "Our dependancy has reached a insane level where someone who grew up without a cell phone for 16 years now can't survive the day knowing it's at home, or the battery is dead. And through this technology we fill the empty spaces in our lives by getting online journals or watching countless hours of TV instead of getting out and really connecting to people." It was just awsome to read. lol but I dont know about the whole hippie thing, it wouldn't be fun to be one alone. Very well written.
i don't think there's anything particularly distressing about *this* generation. Rather, i'd attribute it to 75% of the people in every generation being too comfortable/complacent to question the dominant social paradigms of the time. You get a vastly different picture for any generation past as an outside observer after the fact than as a participant. Revisionist history doesn't help matters any either. Take hippies, for example. I mean, how many hippies do you think there were? proportionally, not so many. Otherwise, who/what were they rebelling against and where did the resistance come from? Every generation has its misfits, its innovators, its conservatives, etc. I agree that there were a lot of social changes during the 60's, but there's a lot going on now that's difficult to recognize because we're a part of it. Hippies may have been externally hopeful, but they got frustrated and fed up and faded away without thinking they made a huge difference too. And how many people used to be 'true' hippies but now have nuclear families
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Let's try to live as hippies/beatniks together. If we try to do it together, maybe we'll be better at it.
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I AM growing up. A part of me wishes I could go back to my naiive childhood state but I know that my newfound knowledge of the world is part of life, and I can't shelter myself forever.
Thanks for the advice. I will keep it in mind.
By the way, I was reading your profile and I saw that you go to SLU. I live in St. Louis. Small world?
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