And the whoopie cushion farts.*
All too often, be it at a party, while cooking cupcakes or on the streets, have I had conversations that turned sour at the topic of "today's youth". These always seem to become manipulated into very one-sided, repetitive discussion. Feel free to rebuttal my rant with your own.
Point 1: Most of the people with whom I have had these discussions have not been any older than 26 (Myself much included. Oh dear, I'm REALLY not 26..). This is relevant because more often then not, the tone becomes quite hautain and detached while talking about "young people these days". How old are we again? Sure, we are no longer teenagers in the midst of an angsty hormone sprout, but I’m pretty sure that we all still fit within the common “youth” definition. It was only a couple of years ago people.
Point 2: Every new generation, the general consensus (or anyway the generally voiced consensus) coming from the previous generations seems to be that we are going downhill. Elvis came along and the devil was within us. Oh god make his legs stop shaking because us young girls just can’t take it anymore. In the sixties/seventies there was quite obviously the hippie movement. Okay, they were all for peace and love (how dare they?) but they are all on drugs. Downhill. Then came the eighties. Enough said for that era, you can probably take it from here. We are “worst” than our parents, as our parents were “worst” than theirs. Big whoop. “Today’s generation” isn’t taking it that much further than we did, no matter how melancholic you want to be about your adolescence.
Point 3: The newest generations often portray a stronger image of what the previous generations have been fighting for. In other words, we’re getting there, or at least getting closer to it, and what do we do? We complain about it. Baby boomer woman wanted sexual liberation, and long before that did we all want equality. Sure, we aren’t quite there yet, but look at where we’ve come from already. All actions have positive and negative consequences. To get to a higher level of liberation, we had to slacken the borders, and change people’s pre-conceived notions on what is acceptable and not. What remains as we push further is people being more and more accepting, not only of the “good” things, but of the “bad” things too. All this is not a new phenomenon. All throughout history has the liberal, frivolous elastic band been stretched and relaxed, to be eventually snapped back at times of utter excess.
So that was my rant. I just love a good rantJ.
Until next time,
Passionately yours with twinkies.
P.S. I am VERY liberal (mentally, not necessarily politicaly) so don't take that last line as a bash, it's just a statement. I even enjoy being frivolous from time to time but that's another story...
Point 1: Most of the people with whom I have had these discussions have not been any older than 26 (Myself much included. Oh dear, I'm REALLY not 26..). This is relevant because more often then not, the tone becomes quite hautain and detached while talking about "young people these days". How old are we again? Sure, we are no longer teenagers in the midst of an angsty hormone sprout, but I’m pretty sure that we all still fit within the common “youth” definition. It was only a couple of years ago people.
Point 2: Every new generation, the general consensus (or anyway the generally voiced consensus) coming from the previous generations seems to be that we are going downhill. Elvis came along and the devil was within us. Oh god make his legs stop shaking because us young girls just can’t take it anymore. In the sixties/seventies there was quite obviously the hippie movement. Okay, they were all for peace and love (how dare they?) but they are all on drugs. Downhill. Then came the eighties. Enough said for that era, you can probably take it from here. We are “worst” than our parents, as our parents were “worst” than theirs. Big whoop. “Today’s generation” isn’t taking it that much further than we did, no matter how melancholic you want to be about your adolescence.
Point 3: The newest generations often portray a stronger image of what the previous generations have been fighting for. In other words, we’re getting there, or at least getting closer to it, and what do we do? We complain about it. Baby boomer woman wanted sexual liberation, and long before that did we all want equality. Sure, we aren’t quite there yet, but look at where we’ve come from already. All actions have positive and negative consequences. To get to a higher level of liberation, we had to slacken the borders, and change people’s pre-conceived notions on what is acceptable and not. What remains as we push further is people being more and more accepting, not only of the “good” things, but of the “bad” things too. All this is not a new phenomenon. All throughout history has the liberal, frivolous elastic band been stretched and relaxed, to be eventually snapped back at times of utter excess.
So that was my rant. I just love a good rantJ.
Until next time,
Passionately yours with twinkies.
P.S. I am VERY liberal (mentally, not necessarily politicaly) so don't take that last line as a bash, it's just a statement. I even enjoy being frivolous from time to time but that's another story...