See:
http://angriestgeneration.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/youre-decrepit-greedy-narcissistic-luddites-plus-you-have-cooties-play-golf-bake-cookies-and-turn-over-the-country-to-us/
Well, several things here…some of us may not actually remember the worst features of our generation – our determination to shove our parents and their values aside, our lust for power, our disorderly and presumptuous protests, our philistine ignorance of history and culture, our arrogant trashing of the nuclear family and traditional social mores, and our rejection of religious institutions. Would it be presumptuous to say that we are getting our just desserts by having our children feed us some of our own dogfood ? Certainly, we’re not fooling our children – they know where and how much we have cheated them out of what they really deserved: a secure childhood, in a stable and relatively prosperous home, with two loving parents in the house.
Now, it is certainly the prerogative of parents to brace their kids from time to time, and tell them that they’d better shape up if they’re going to amount to anything. And it is just a fact of life, one that our generation tried and did not entirely succeed in flaunting, that in a democratic and meritocratic society, one has to work one’s way up from the bottom.
The simple fact is that even in our broken families, we are all on the same team with our children, and we seek to advance their interests over those of their peers and not outs. So, while my own children are no different – Obamite lemmings like all the rest – the Old Man still has a few moves left to teach them, a few useful contacts left in his Rolodex, a few dollars left in his bank account. I do trust my kids to take better care of me, when I can no longer take care of myself, than I trust my Uncle Sam. But in the meantime, as Rudyard Kipling stated so forcefully in “An Imperial Rescript”
http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/kipling2.htm
There’s a girl in Jersey City who works on the telephone;
We’re going to hitch our horses and dig for a house of our own,
With gas and water connections, and steam heat through to the top;
And W. Hohenzollern, I guess I shall work till I drop.
And an English delegate thundered:–”The weak an’ the lame be blowed!
I’ve a berth in the Sou’-West workshops, a home in the Wandsworth Road;
And till the ’sociation has footed my buryin’ bill,
I work for the kids an’ the missus. Pull up! I’ll be damned if I will!
—-
Quite so. The response to the “angriest generation” ought to be,
“Your old man was right after all. You want to work forever, you lazy bum ? Well, get on to it, and quit your whining.”
I think our children would like it if that is what we did.
Bill R.
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