Pops wrote:
But I settled down about then and needed to make a living; it happens. As to your original point Ibon, yes, definitely do not have kids if you don't want to be encumbered. At least for me, I became the nest builder after the chicks arrived, LOL. Unfortunately, acquisition became routine for me, so that now that our kids are long moved away, I'm encumbered by stuff.
Here at 56 the actuaries would say I have maybe 20 productive years so I'm thinking it is time I finally unencumbered myself of stuff. I am in the somewhat unique position of being able to work from anywhere I can get a cell signal or McDonalds' WiFi, so why not do a little wandering around - albeit fossil fueled wandering? Learn/work/play.
along the way we would stop occasionally to visit with this kid or that great grandkid
(hear that Mrs. Ibon? )
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careinke wrote:farmlad wrote:I just came across an interesting article in BBC Magazine "A Point of View, See no Evil". I`m wondering what others make of this article.
Welcome farmlad.
Normally one posts a link to the article so people have a chance to read it before commenting. If you read it from hard copy, the Issue of the magazine would be helpful.
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Keith_McClary wrote:farmlad wrote:I just came across an interesting article in BBC Magazine "A Point of View, See no Evil". I`m wondering what others make of this article.
Save us the trouble of cut'n'pasting it into Google.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25680144
BBC wrote:It's an attitude that hasn't gone away. A similar denial of reality prevails today in Britain and many other countries in connection with the financial crisis and its aftermath. The bankers and politicians seem genuinely to have believed that a new type of capitalism had been invented in which booms and busts would no longer occur. In the new era we'd entered, they were convinced, a level of prosperity had been reached that would only increase for the foreseeable future.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Rod_Cloutier wrote:There is a generational impact as well.
My Millennial daughter is blaming the Baby boomer generation for ruining her future. The boomers created a generation gap with those who came before them on the way in, causing all kinds of historical issues in the 60's and early 70's. As the boomers depart, the mess they are leaving behind is truly epic. My parents generation was truly a historical enigma, that will be remembered by history only by its aberration from historical norms.
It plays into the energy story. The generation with the peak education, peak resources, peak lifestyle, peak mobility, peak everything. Think of how boomer 20 something's rock n' roll stars with their own private jets in the 60's was a departure from the previous norm? They have fly in hamburger joints now for boomer millionaires who have their private planes. No generation before or ever after will have had these luxuries or excesses.
When the boomers are mostly gone by the mid 2030's our society will be unrecognizable from its current form.
https://youtu.be/VVlFtA8ZUJ0?t=8s
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
So the Boomers spawned the Millenials
the whole exercise of generation "A" blaming generation "B" is pointless and rather silly.
Rod_Cloutier wrote:the whole exercise of generation "A" blaming generation "B" is pointless and rather silly.
It doesn't mean it can't or won't happen. I think it will escalate, quite dramatically, in the years to come.
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