Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: New attitudes Message-ID: <227@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 21:53:18 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.227 Posted: Tue Jan 15 21:53:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:14:07 EST References: <1893@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 42 -- >> Being a student of the "good old" sexual revolution days, I find this >> decrease curious. Don't get me wrong - the days of "sexual freedom and >> exploration" were not my idea of nirvana. But it seems to me that >> the young'ins of today have swung quite far from the attitudes prevalent >> back then. How come? >> ka:ren Yeah, I hear tell that they're all into religion and money now. Of course, back in the 60's we didn't have to worry about getting a job. There were jobs enough for everybody. And if *you* didn't have any plans for a couple of years, why, Uncle Sam was more than eager to hire any man, able-bodied or not, and send him a third of the way around the world to prop up a corrupt, CIA-installed Asian regime. Alas, kids today don't get that kind of education any more. They listen attentively to their president and they believe him. Sh*t, according to polls, they *admire* him! Well, it's not their asses on the line any more. It all added up to a lot of *passion*. Didn't matter what happened, you could start a demonstration over it. A loud one. At Michigan we held a march once to protest the dehumanization caused by changing telephone protocol over from the alphabetic exchanges to all numbers! (And now that I'm at AT&T, I might ad**PROPRIETARY INFORMATION**e case!) It must be rough growing up now, knowing the world may be blown to kingdom come any minute, knowing that the good jobs are scarce and getting scarcer. Scary. No wonder they're turning to the old boring religions. We studied the Eastern stuff to expand our consciousness, to learn new things. Nowadays, they go for the plain vanilla, for the security. There's so little hope, and even less exuberance. I spent a lot of my youth dodging the draft and/or stoned. It was hell. It was great. Wait a minute, I feel a novel coming on... "It...was...the ...best...of...times..." -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 15 Jan 85 [26 Nivose An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***