Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:11:53 -0700
From: "Ben Mitchell" <ben@mitchellfamily.com>
Subject: LRO: RE: Wasted youth (was parts availability, etc.)
>I take exception to your blanket characterization of upcoming generations as
apathetic and undriven. While it's certainly true that there are a bunch of
slackers my age and younger. I know just as many old farts who share their
apathy.
See, you prove my point. You are under the delusion that youth today is
worth a damn. Typical youth attitude based on unreality. If you really knew
what was going on, you'd know that youth is basically worthless. I guess
you'll have to wait four more years to learn that..... (you said you were 26).
>A lot of the tools you take for granted (including a whole
bunch of the hardware and software that the drivel you just posted traversed
on its way to the rest of us) was designed and built by those apathetic kids
you're maligining.
No it wasn't. It was conceived by a bunch of old farts at IBM and
Xerox. Ask Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, they'll set you straight.
The technology industry in the hands of the "kids" has certainly
done spectacularly in the stock market, hasn't it.....
>Regardless however, I would argue that the problems of my generation (if
indeed they are any worse that those of any prior one) are more directly
attributable to the very lack of entheusiasm for energizing and inspiring
youth on the part of their role models than to any shortcomings of their
own.
Agreed.
>Yes, you can turn this around and claim that I'm making your point by
shouting "victim"...
Don't have to, you just did.
>How many grey haired Senators are out there blaming guns
for school shootings.
Well, they do have a point. If there weren't any guns, it'd make it tough
to have shootings....
>People like YOU arethe very root of the problems you're lamenting.
How do you figure that? I don't even have kids, so I'm not passing
my hideous baby boomer traits on to anyone (except my dog, who is, I admit,
a whiner).
>I humbly submit that you're a
crazy old bastard and you should find a porch somewhere with a rocker where
you can whittle little wooden Rovers (in bone stock configuration) and
mumble about how "they don't make 'em like they used to".
I'm looking forward to that. I only hope there aren't any worthless youth around
to interrupt my whittling and bother me with stupid questions like, "Where does
wood come from?" By the way, the "they don't make 'em like they used to"
statement applies as much to people as it does to vehicles.....
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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