Reply #238: You know one of the problems of my generation? [View All]

Without meaning to, many of us raised our children to be quite disrespectful to their elders.

Be that as it may, and on the subject of self absorption.


It's something that's present in every generation, at least going as far back as the Boomers. Before that, the generations didn't have time for it.


All fine and dandy for your generation...or maybe you personally, who knows...to sit there and sit in judgment of the generation before you and call us "self absorbed". Especially when a lot of the benefits of our "self absorption" are now yours.

"Self absorbed" people don't go to a tropical hellhole and die by the thousands each year. "Self absorbed" people don't fight for civil rights and womens rights , not just for themselves, but for generations as yet, at the time, unborn.

My generation did that, and more, and we don't expect any thanks for it. Just like my dad's generation fought in WWII and did their duties and tried to make life better for us. They didn't expect thanks, and I don't know that I ever did say "Thank you" to my dad for the sacrifices he made.

But I NEVER slapped him in the face with rudeness and childish petulance when day after day all we heard about was how much "better" things were back in the olden days.

I wouldn't do it to him, and I wouldn't do it to anyone else.


I think my generation doesn't really want thanks...but it sure would be nice if you young people would stop acting like a bunch of dickheads. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. At least to, and about, people who blazed a trail through an uncharted forest, the benefits of which you are now enjoying.