--- "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
> > >
> > > http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
> > >
> > > >From childless fans of kiddie music to the grown-up readers of Harry
> > > Potter, inner children are having fun all over. ....
> >
> >I destinctly remember being 4 years old and considering how so many adults
> >simply had absolutly no clue. I do not remember the situation exactly, but
> I
> >do remember saying at the time, that I would never be like ~those~ adults.
> >
> >I do not believe that neoteny has anything at all to do with this. It's
> >simply genX X- and Y reaching the "adult" age and knowing we will never
> get
> >our turn at self determination...maybe there should be a ~maximum~ age for
> >voteing....na *sigh*.
>
>
> ===>
>
> >Calvin: ~sighs~ What's the point? GONA BE A PUNK ROCKER!
>
>
>
> Agh! There is abso-fricking no WAY you get to pull this on us old farts.
>
> The sighing lament above PALES compared to the self-pitying rants
> that MY generation spilled. Oh the angst! The alienations! The
> "what's the use" pathos!
Right. You understand GenX. It's just the same thing you went through only
rewrapped in a differnt ficad. How could the attitudes and beleifes of the
"lost generation" be anything other than the same angst and -false
alienation- you felt.
> Just look at the @$#%$# rock lyrics!
>
> When it comes to alienation, drama-posing, and generational
> self-pity, you whippersnappers have got NOTHING on us!
I absolutly agree. Xrs are not alienated, they certainly did choose a
differnt way of expressing themselves, they lack self pity as you have
defined it.
What they don't have on you is shear numbers, and they never will. While your
generation has taken over the reigns and shaped the political environemnt to
your political ebb and flood, their generation will simply never have the
numbers to make a differnece.
> bloody amateurs..... think they invented alienation. Sheesh.....
Alienation? who said anything about alienation? Is that really the way GenX
X- and Y looks to you? Do you really think that they feel alienated? If you
do, then your not getting it....well, maybe you are getting genY to some
extent. But then maybe they are simply suffering from a simple lack of
creative "drama-posing".
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