14-12-2023, 10:43 AM
There's some truth to that but mostly it applies more to American than it does here. And the claim that boomers 'hate young people' is completely wrong, most of us have grandkids.
My parents had been through the depression & WW2; they had a strong sense of fairness & the old 'waste not, want not' frugal attitude which they'd been given by their parents.
Neither of those are bad things, in fact the entire world could do with more of both. The 60's gave the entire world a far better sense of the wrongness of racism & even a bit later,misogyny, women's rights, human rights developed as a result.
Incidentally, if anyone wants an idea of how it was in the UK during the depression & later, how Neo LIberalism destroyed many of the better alternatives set up after WW2, Harry's last stand is an excellent read. He wrote it shortly before his death at age 91.
Interesting that the UK set up their National Health System while they were still deeply in debt after WW2, but decided it was of such vital importance that it had to be done regardless.
And now the Neo Liberals have virtually destroyed it'
I think every bastard politician should be obliged to read this & a few other books.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/j...ara-review
My parents had been through the depression & WW2; they had a strong sense of fairness & the old 'waste not, want not' frugal attitude which they'd been given by their parents.
Neither of those are bad things, in fact the entire world could do with more of both. The 60's gave the entire world a far better sense of the wrongness of racism & even a bit later,misogyny, women's rights, human rights developed as a result.
Incidentally, if anyone wants an idea of how it was in the UK during the depression & later, how Neo LIberalism destroyed many of the better alternatives set up after WW2, Harry's last stand is an excellent read. He wrote it shortly before his death at age 91.
Interesting that the UK set up their National Health System while they were still deeply in debt after WW2, but decided it was of such vital importance that it had to be done regardless.
And now the Neo Liberals have virtually destroyed it'
I think every bastard politician should be obliged to read this & a few other books.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/j...ara-review
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)