For the most part, young people are not in positions of authority, at least at the higher levels.

On the whole, young people think that the novel is superior to the tried and true.

Typically, our culture tends to think of those who manage to attain an advanced age, did so by holing up in a cave somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

Characteristically, youth believe that because the mature have mastered their urges and have developed patience as a virtue that they have no knowledge of the zeal of youth.

This has been the trend for no less that 10,000 years.

Soon all us old folks will be dead and the youth of today will be middle-aged and beyond and the fate of the world will be at their hands and the fingers of the youth of that day will be pointed directly at them.

Thus the cycle will have come full circle and will continue for the duration of our species.



[edit on 2009/7/2 by GradyPhilpott]

Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
For the most part, young people are not in positions of authority, at least at the higher levels.

On the whole, young people think that the novel is superior to the tried and true.

However, the novel just might just be superior to the tried and failed. Look at what has been tried and where we are for it. Something truely novel must be attempted or we'll just be stuck with history repeating itself at the same level.

pure diss info,

change young people to citizents and older adults to goverment.

i belive the metafore is clear ,

but the article is just nonsence, they switch govermental dissagrement to parental issues ,

they are dumbing you down , here have a glas of milk and a cookie , now go play in the pen like all the other childeren...

Originally posted by Frogs
....In doing that I've seen some issues were far more complex than I thought and the simple views I once held simply would not work - no matter how much I tried to make them. ....

Hindsight ONLY comes from experience...

I'll check out the read later tonight...thx for providing your post!

OT

Originally posted by zerbot565
pure diss info,

So the implication here is the surveyors are lying???? Come on now....

What of the 3000 people interviewed...made up by 'ACORN' Staff


OT

The young may have knowledge, yet he lacks the wisdom to put that knowledge to fruitful action.

Originally posted by PoetofTime
The young may have knowledge, yet he lacks the wisdom to put that knowledge to fruitful action.

PoetofTime, could not have said it better......!

Why/How did you come to this wisdom?

OT

Originally posted by EnlightenUp
.....Transmute the circle into a spiral.....

ok....how do I do that....?

Are you speaking of the Avatar?

OT

Originally posted by OldThinker

Originally posted by EnlightenUp
.....Transmute the circle into a spiral.....

ok....how do I do that....?

Are you speaking of the Avatar?

OT

I suppose if you're asking then you're already doing it to some degree. Discerning the "tried and true" of tradition vs. the "tried and true" of wisdom can be daunting at times. In other words, what things do we do because they've become entrenched and which do we do because it is actually wise and prudent?

If nothing changes, things repeat themselves endlessly, thus we have a circle. If we make advances in our understanding, discarding the useless or counterproductive that we recognize, each cycle is advanced by a small amount and progress is made, thus a spiral.

Nothing to do with any avatars though.

Generation after generation, old lies become new truths and old truths become new lies.

All in the shape of technology.

Almost everyone is exploitable...but a new form takes place each generation. People are "forced" into a general, societal normal.

At the same time, I still do believe the newer generations are always smarter than the previous.

I foresaw this years ago in High school.

The new generation, my generation, are conservative secularists to my best notion.

People who believe in conservative values, but have no care for religion and do not see it as important. Most of us believe in an afterlife and God, we just see no point in organized religion.

And most of us understand that gay marriage is just as valid as regular marriage, because love is love. They can't have kids, that's it.

You might be thinking "doesn't gay marriage go against conservative views?"

No. It does not. It goes perfectly together. We have no care for the actions of others in their own bed. Most do not like the gay parades, and I cannot understand sexual patriotism, but why on Earth would I deny the right to marriage to 2 people who love each other?

Facebook polls, where the youth hangs out, really goes a long way to show this.

Some issues about this generation you should know about:
A lot of this generation seems to be against abortion more so now.
We're still split on the origin of man, surprisingly, but most stick with evolution or God + evolution.

F the government. We do not like it.

The current economy is not solvable with massive money spendings.

War is not good for anything but emergencies.

World unions are good so long as the constitution still rules our land.

Sorry old folks, but you're just not right and I don't have a whole lot of respect for the baby boomer generation. No disrespect, but you're just wrong on so many things.


[edit on 5-7-2009 by Gorman91]

This is the result of programmed information = Divide and Conquer.


Just as before.


We have learned nothing... because were are not supposed to.


Look up FederalJack, Global Research, Peers, Citizens for Legitimate Government,

Patriots Question 911, Oathkeepers dot org, What Really Happened, Yannone, Rense,

InfoWars...


The Bilgerbergers, Timeline of the Rothschilds, Report from Iron Mountain, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,

and "Healing Codes" by Dr Len Horowitz... The clock is ticking..........................

It's not what I or you believe, that isn't part of their equation.