The line was based on the experiences of age cohorts who go to
Afghanistan. David is my age, he went off to Kosovo to fight the
Serbs (remember when they were the bad guys). As he is an adventurist
fool he ended up in Afghanistan. Fifteen years earlier he would have
been fighting with the Mujahdeen before they got taken over by
Wahabist elements and been lauded by Western Govenements. I remember
watching docos on bearded westerners there. Exactly the same
behaviour doing exactly the samethings and and he ends up collected
at a bus station (some local warlords get USD 10 000) and then ends
up in the Star Chamber at gitmo.
Baby Boomers have it lucky. Their excesses were only ever self-
limiting. Most of the recent music discussions made me want to...
But I'm not a 'hardcore' embittered genX. Check out
http://paulwatson.blogspot.com/
for that.
You have to remember most of us were 30 or so before the genX label
came out, a boomer marketeering category BTW people they could sell
to, and suddenly the first decade of our lives made sense, worse, we
remember every single moment of the eighties.
I've been on the dole for twenty years now. David avoided this by
headed off to Kosovo.
Poetry is a better option methinks.
meika
On 28/03/2007, at 1:28, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> It is also a common political dismissal by the uninformed young,
> some of
> whom assume that "boomers" are too morally & politically corrupt to
> have
> valid political opinions. Most often used by self-rightous young
> leftists.
> Even if the phrase itself were merely descriptive, making the broad
> assumption that someone "must be a Baby Boomer" because he holds a
> particular political opinion is offensive in itself, as well as
> intellectually lazy. Hell, it doesn't even come up to the level of
> lazy.
>
> jd
>
> On 3/27/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry, Joe, but I don't understand why "baby
>> boomer" is insulting. It's common parlance among those
>> who are baby boomers and those who are not.
>>
>> Candice
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > "Darren must be another Baby Boomer."
>> >
>> > This is insulting and makes a broad generalization
>> > about a very large group
>> > of people. It also does not reply to Darren's post,
>> > but makes a snide
>> > allusion to a stereotype. Pray you avoid such things
>> > in the future. Your
>> > remark is as unfounded in reality & as unsupported
>> > by evidence as Darren
>> > King's defense of the indefensible.
>> >
>> > [And lest anyone be confused, I am posting here as a
>> > member of this
>> > community, not as a list manager.]
>> >
>> > --
>> > Joseph Duemer
>> > Professor of Humanities
>> > Clarkson University
>> > [sharpsand.net]
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________________
>> _______________
>> Bored stiff? Loosen up...
>> Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
>> http://games.yahoo.com/games/front
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
|