Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 22:21:34 -0700
From: Michael Hatton <mhatton@compt.com>
Subject: Re: LRO: Re: Parts availability vs. bulletproofing
>Marin, do you really know what is "going on"? If you do I would really
like to know :)
Absolutely. I didn't until I was over 30, but now I've been all over the world,
met all sorts of people, done all sorts of things from flying floatplanes
in Alaska to driving off-road in the Northwest Territories to running canal
boats in the UK to operating a trawler in the Pacific Northwest to deep
sea fishing in the Pacific to writing books to making movies to counting
wolves in the Cascades to moose hunting in BC. I know every damn thing
there is to know now :-)
>Waste time on the young, so that they will waste their time on you, when
you are old...
The last thing I'm going to want when I'm old is some stupid kid whining around
being a professional victim due to his own total lack of responsibility and worthless
values and education. I'd rather watch paint dry than have a conversation with
a "young person" today. Virtually every one I've met has less drive than the worms
in my lawn. But the really disturbing thing is how ALL of them view themselves as
victimized by the circumstances surrounding them. Not ONE "young person" in
my acquaintance, and I know a fair number of them, is willing to admit that their
road-to-nowhere lives are due to their own lack of initiative. Everything is someone
else's fault. However, I must say that this is almost always the same attitude
expressed by their parents, so I can't totally blame the kids. But I'm really getting
tired of hearing people whine that they can't accomplish anything because "the
world's against them." If they were actually trying to do things and were getting
rebuffed at every turn, that would be different. But they just drift through life
using "everything's against me" as a rationalization for making no effort or
taking no responsibility.
So don't try to convince me that today's youth is worth giving the time of day. From
everything I've observed and experienced, my time would be better spent waxing
my toilet.
As for "making a better world for our kids," why should I worry about them? After
I'm gone to whatever's next, what happens here is of no consequence to me. So what
if the world's out of energy, the ozone layer's gone, and humans are baking to death
in the sun. I had to solve the problems in my life, and when today's young people grow up,
they can solve the problems in theirs. Only I don't have much hope that they will. Humans,
like dinosaurs, will see their days end, and we'll be replaced by..... what? It'd be interesting
to know.
One thing I do know, they'll be too smart to be driving old Land Rovers. :-)
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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