BS: Oh ye generation of morons...

Subject: RE: BS: Oh ye generation of morons...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 09:17 PM

Families where both parents are working fulltime to keep their heads above water are pretty well the norm here these days (I don't know the statistics, though it'd be easy enough to dig them out via the magic Net). And of course there are a very large number of one parent families where the mother (in most cases) is holding down a fulltime paid job as well as everything else.

True enough, keeping in touch with the news, and even seeing it as relevant, can be pretty hard for overworked people.

However, my hunch is that, in spite of this, a lot of overworked people do manage to do this - while a lot of people who aren't overworked don't.

At least there is still ready access here to relatively honest and informative news bulletins on the main TV channels. Touch wood.

Subject: RE: BS: Oh ye generation of morons...
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 09:59 PM

A good many people come to Alaska to 'get away from it all'. In many cases I suspect that getting away includes having to worry about what the government is doing, both in Washington and in their own state. (It could be that is one reason for the low voter turnout, not just in Alaska but everywhere in the country.)

Oddly enough, Alaskans elect some of the oddest people- talk about reactionary. Maybe it has to do with the parental vs. peer thing a previous thread linked to, maybe it's simply that they don't want to have to do any thinking about it at all.

On occasion I get the urge to do the same- get away, that is, not the parental thing. The world seems to lurch and bumble along about the same whether I know about it or I don't. Maybe it's true that no one should read each newspaper until one year later- and then you'd see how many things you have survived?

Subject: RE: BS: Oh ye generation of morons...
From: Greg F.
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 10:29 PM

Looks like we're circling back to the observation that

"Every country gets the government it deserves"

and the related cliché that

"Nothing worthwhile is accomlished without effort"-

don't it?

Whoops- gotta go! NASCAR's on!



Nothing worth

Subject: RE: BS: Oh ye generation of morons...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 01:16 PM

I have never seen NASCAR. I gather, from visiting hobby shops, that it involves fast cars that are absolutely plastered with advertising roaring around a track and periodically creating a hideous accident while competing ruthlessly and frantically for big bucks and fame.

Sort of like a microcosm of the capitalist ethic...