Quote from compisnada2002:
This is a great post and you tree huggers would not have been that bad if you just showered. As for being envious, well that is all relevant. The thought of all those unshaven smelly women in an orgy does not give me a chubby ....(and the post goes on with further nonsense).
Obvious a post by a very well informed person.
I never was in an orgy, nor did I ever know of anyone actually being in one. However I have read about Plato's Retreat.....a place populated by a much later generation. Probably that of DBPhoenix and compisnada2002.
When I was in college, I never dated a woman who smelled. I don't think I knew any. I shaved and showered every day as did everyone I knew.
The only "new" drug that I knew of that was commonly used as never before was Ortho Novum.
Men had longer hair. Clothing styles were different. Lot's of things were different, but there were moral people and immoral people then, just as now. To stereotype a whole generation is laughable.
Having read the posts of these kids that seem to disrespect the "worst generation" I noticed another difference. We somehow learned how to spell, and how to construct sentences. We must have been the beneficiaries of a far better educational system. Or more likely, we just paid more attention in school. Maybe we were interested in learning, and weren't consumed with just making money.
As for our parenting skills: I have a 22 year old stepson who is graduating college in two months. He will be working in the operations of a major sports franchise (New York Mets), after earning his way in by being an intern during his summer vacations. Both he and his sister, who is a sophomore at Northwestern University were both National Honor Society members. She has been interning for ESPN magazine and has a very bright future to look forward to in journalism.
My son is entering the Nuclear Propulsion School (United States Navy) and will be a naval officer. Proudly serving his country.
None of them have ever touched drugs. Yet their parents had long hair and marched on Washington for the Moratorium on the War in 1969. And smoked pot. And even tried LSD. Different times. And we were brought up by the "Greatest Generation".
How did this ever happen? How did we raise kids that turned out better than we did as far as we are concerned? (Though my wife graduated from college Summa Cum Laude, and then in the top 5% of her class at law school....and I have been successful in starting and growing three different businesses, and provided for my family quite well).
Maybe there is one good lesson to be learned here. DON'T TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF!!!
And now having expressed MY opinion, which can be argued against, (and I am sure it will be, because we are all entitled to our opinions), I CAN say one thing with absolute certainty.
OUR MUSIC WAS MUCH BETTER!!!!
Quote from dbphoenix:
We? Only a very few continued to work for change through legislatures and through the courts. Everybody else just got stoned and pretty much stayed that way. Or went into real estate.
--Db
Guess the way for more than whatever your conception of a "few" is, would to be to expand government, and make more room for more people to work through the "legislatures and though the courts".
And yeah, we all just stayed "stoned". What is your problem? Why the resentment? Why the anger? (Why the jealousy?)
Did people go into real estate? Yeah some did. Must have been because it was a brand new industry
You sit and post your bullshit on the computer you take for granted. A device developed by the "worst generation".
AND OUR MUSIC IS
STILL BETTER!!
Peace,

Rs7