Iron Criterion said:
Fox12 said:
Zontar said:
Rabbitboy said:
I am regularly told that my generation will have it worse than our parents. So if there is anyone who has a right to complain it would be us. Depletion of natural resources, an economy that is going down the drain. Don't you dare criticize the ones who will have to fix your mess.
The problem is those descriptions are lies, sensationalism in the name of selling papers in the morning. Sure the economy isn't great, and it takes a bit more effort to get oil then it used to, but lets not pretend things are somehow worst off then they where before (hell, lets not pretend things are as bad as they where in the 90s).
The world isn't ending, I suppose, but we are inheriting our ancestors mistakes, which makes their insufferable attitude as awful as their incompetence. The baby boomers onward really messed up. A Cold War, Vietnam, multiple wars in the Middle East, terrorism, insane national debt, an authoritative government that spies on its own citizens and tortures foreign combatants.... They've squandered everything, and expect the current generation to look after them while also fixing their mistakes, and all the while I'm asking when will it be our time? There are too many old men in congress. Our forefathers were cowards, they're still cowards, and they're fools. All of them? No. But as a generation? Absolutely.
I have little patience for the older generations. I hope to god that my generation learns from their mistakes, and makes things easier for those that follow.
I had to sign into this account for the first time in well over a year, just to comment how much this pissed me off.
Cowards? The previous generations certainly screwed up, but they were not cowards. They had real issues to deal with: fascism, an absolute collapse of the economy, the threat of nuclear destruction, etc. These may have resulted from their mistakes, egos, whatever, but the way they handled this certainly was not cowardly. Difficult circumstances call for difficult measures. I doubt we will fair half as well during the trails we face.
We are the cowards. "Oh he said this slightly offensive joke on Twitter - social campaign time!" We don't even know if we want to give those who went to join ISIS a reassuring hug or jail time upon their return. Being alive now is practically synonymous with being forced to be 100% accepting of every single lifestyle choice - even if you never say or do anything about your disapproval. I dread to think the cowardly, Orwellian, Liberalism that'll be thrust upon us when people of our generation begin to take office.
Orwellian Liberalism? You must be joking, that's an oxymoron. Liberalism, by its very nature, supports small government and freedom. Don't confuse it with the stuff the democrats are peddling. Do you know what is orwellian? Spying on our own citizens, who we don't trust, in order to protect them from some middle eastern goat herders. I could care less about ISIS, they're less dangerous then the NSA, because ISIS can't take away our freedoms. The NSA can. We allow the NSA, and the rest of the government, to do whatever it wants because we're scared of terrorism. And who allowed this situation to occur? Why, our forefathers. They were poor stewards of freedom. That is the very nature of cowardice, that we would sacrifice freedom for security.
If my old comment pissed you off, then I'm sorry, but this is going to be a doozy. Mccain and his ilk are a bunch of fascists. Obama is no better. Both parties support big government, spying programs, and the militarization of the police. It's a disgrace that America has allowed things to get this bad. I don't know if my generation will try to fix this situation or perpetuate it, but that won't stop me from criticizing the ones who allowed things to get this bad in the first place.