Peter Kupfer wrote:
Not to diverge from this awesome conversation, but I find that this is more true than I ever thought. I am 25, and I teach high school students, and I look at the action of these people that are 11 - 7 years younger than me, and I see some of the things I did as HS student and I am now yelling at them for doing.
Maybe I'm just a slow learner or stubborn, but I always feel saddened when I observe this tendency, or when I hear people talk about it as if it was unavoidable. Rightly or wrongly, it always sounds to me like giving up or acquiescing to the power structure for the sake of an easier life (and please note that I'm talking in the abstract here, not about anyone in particular).
I'm less naive than I was as a young adult, and more cynical, and, I hope, more experienced and knowledgable. Yet the things I believed twenty years ago are just as important to me now as they were then, just in different ways.
I used to worry that growing more conservative was inevitable as you aged. Fortunately, I had several bad examples who were outstanding in their fields, and it doesn't seem to be happening to me. Not yet - and, with luck, not ever.
-- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield
