Brent Poirier Attorney at Law wrote:
One can only hope those teenagers are looking for what we were looking
for 4 decades ago. Meaning! Genuine spirituality. A sense of the
mystic. None of which is really to be found in the world our
generation has build.>>
I am not very quick to elevate our generation to a more spiritual status
than the one before us, or the one after us. As a quick observation, we
seem more satisfied with a coherent belief system; kids want action.
Dear Brent,
This is exactly true and the difference between youth and middle age.
As Baha'i communities by enlarge are composed as other religions by
middle aged souls. What was so wonderful about the late sixties and
early seventies was the community had this huge influx of youth which
sidelined the older generation rather quickly. I am hopping for the
repeat of such an event. Let it come soon.
The kids today seem more ensnared by peer pressure, but maybe that is
not true either.
One big difference is they do not have the "draft" to content with.
Our generation planted the seeds for the nihilism of
today. I for sure would not want to be a high school or college kid
trying to see my way through these times.
Neither would I. My friends and I were into the than called counter
culture, long hair, drugs, free love. We came into the Faith by
droves. So many, it upset the Baha'i Apple cart of the day. Cool
stuff. That older generation of Baha'is by enlarge excepted us. Many
left and many stayed.
Also, as far as our generation being genuinely spiritual -- how many
found their way to Baha'u'llah? So can our generation be called so
spiritual?
I was speaking of the Baha'i generation, not the generation at large.
The majority of present Baha'is came joined in the seventies.
Each generation seems to have its own few qualities that it deems the
most important in character; they are different each generation, but
they all seem to be a small selection from the array of qualities which
Baha'u'llah calls us to. We claim to be more peace oriented, but a lot
of that comes from the foundation laid by our parents.
I recall the youth counter revolution started as reaction to Vietnam
war and the draft that made it personal. Our generation rejected at
first the wealth and hard work of the previous generation, of course,
later we embraced it with both hands and became more conservative than
our parents ever were.
In general I
think that our parents, individually and as a generation, had our
generation in mind when they took collective steps like creating and
paying for a system of higher education, creating the UN.
A reaction to the horrors of WWII.
Our
generation has its virtues, but so do the others. Ours just fit like an
old sweater and seem more comfortable to us.
I was a teenager in the early sixties.
Albert
Brent
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