File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9907, message 710


Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:52:11 +1200
From: Janskrit Virdee <lorax-AT-inet.net.nz>
Subject: Re: An Explosive End For Woodstock '99 (Burning and Looting)




Jerald Hellemeyer wrote:

> Mark writes:
>
> >You vindicate the thesis already put forward on this list regarding the
> >Woodstock(s),
> >namely that this generation thinks that a wrong is righted by destroying
> >the property
> >of other people.
>
> Hmmm.  I seem to recall that the "boomers" did an awful lot of property
> damage to further their causes.  All of those riots surely did a little
> damage.
>
> >That is elementary civilized behavior, something
> >which
> >generation X seems, in general, to woefully unappreciate.
>
> 1) see above.  Am I to assume baby boomers are uncivilized because of the
> destruction of property, morals, and the status quo they caused.
>
> 2) As Carp pointed out, the youth of today are not what is referred to as
> generation X.  Gen-X (also called the baby bust because there are so few of
> us) is generally referred to as those people born between 1964 and 1977.
> The "current" generation is the largest generation in american history.
> They very well could have a greater effect on our society than the baby
> boomers ever did.  So you might want to be a little nicer to them.
> Otherwise, they will turn on you the way your generation turned on your
> parents.  It also wouldn't hurt to teach them anarchist and libertarian
> principals now while they are young.
>
> And speaking of this new boom, are other parts of the U$ going through a
> school building boom.  All the towns around here are under taking the
> construction of massive new schools.  There are so damn many of these kids
> now.
>
> Jerald
>
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I was born in '78 to WWII generation parents, skipping the baby boom
completely, so what does that make me?
A time warped boomer, a straggling Gen X'er or just a lost cause?
Lorax




   

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