tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post1657628955288089677..comments2024-03-27T17:27:49.087-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: My Generation Didn't Burn Out, It Just Faded AwayVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-65901482182611655772019-01-21T21:13:43.778-05:002019-01-21T21:13:43.778-05:00Agree totally with Thomas Ten Bears.
When I gradua...Agree totally with Thomas Ten Bears.<br />When I graduated high school, Vietnam was over, Nixon was out.<br />Then we elected Jimmy Carter<br />4 years later, Ronald Reagan was elected (bad), then RE-elected (VERY bad).<br />And it's been more downhill than uphill since then.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17481459208057534462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-11726385865779676522019-01-21T17:55:54.835-05:002019-01-21T17:55:54.835-05:00Consider this: my generation dropped the ball. We ...Consider this: my generation dropped the ball. We stopped The War. Our War. Viet Nam. But we didn't stop War. We forced Nixon to accountability. Whoopee! Nixon quit, The War is Over! Let's finish our law degrees, cut our hair, and buy beemers and half-million dollar houses on the High Desert!<br /><br />We stopped The War. Our War. Viet Nam. But we didn't stop War. We finished our law degrees and bought overpriced McMansions, and left the machinations* in place, notably Bush/Carlyle, Cheney/Haliburton and Rumsfield/etal, that led to the Authoritarian State - Fascist State - we are about to, if not have, become.<br /><br />We dropped the ball.<br /><br />Don't be so hard on yourself, we could have changed the world, but we didn't.<br /><br />Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11342911380840320087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-15409862399935267782019-01-20T22:49:53.697-05:002019-01-20T22:49:53.697-05:0013th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? is the short...13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? is the short version of Strauss and Howe's longer work - Generations. Generations is a book chock full of data that has been cherry picked and massaged to fit into what seems to have been a pre-determined framework.<br /><br />This whole naming generations thing is stupid and it's just a bogus update of determining peoples' personalities based on their birth date. Pseudoscience from beginning to end.<br /><br />The only GOOD thing to come of the the Gen 13 book as an album by Canadian prog rockers Saga called Generation 13.<br /><br />https://www.amazon.com/Generation-13-2015-Saga/dp/B071HTKVN7/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Generation+13&qid=1548042301&s=MP3+Downloads&sr=1-1Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17481459208057534462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-81986099258836038022019-01-20T10:58:40.146-05:002019-01-20T10:58:40.146-05:00Thanks for this. I'm looking at this jpeg and...Thanks for this. I'm looking at this jpeg and my jaw is still on the floor at the realization that they just simply...skipped over Gen X. Like we didn't fucking matter (pardon my language).<br /><br />Still, at least Gen X-ers are the parents of post-millenials--who seem to be doing all right. I'm an uncle to a niece born in 1999, and she and her friends make me hopeful for the future. The same can be said for the Parkland teens and other teens who pushed to get the vote out in 2018.<br /><br />Then again, I am a member of Gen X (mid-40s) who may be drifting into a relationship with a Millenial (mid-30s). Marc McKenzienoreply@blogger.com