hephzibah wrote:Questioner wrote:Your generation is in no way different than any other generation. Fear is an ever-present thing. Ever hear of the Cold War? Compared to that, what's going on today is a cake-walk.
The keyword here is your use of the words 'governed by fear'. The difference between you and everyone else is the word 'governed'.
Say what??? You've got to be kidding... a cake walk... give me a break... Just in the last... well I won't say how many years... since I was in school the scene has changed dramatically! I never had to worry about getting shot when I went to school. I never had to worry about someone trying to sell me drugs on my way there. I never had to worry about what metal products might be in my backpack that could set off the metal detector at the door.
Most kids today don't have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. You think there weren't gangs in earlier generations? The only difference between then and now is now they are at least TRYING to keep shivs and knives and guns out of the school.
And for the record, most kids today don't have to worry about getting shot at school. There are exceptions, sure. Just like there were before.
Also, there was the small matter of the Draft, where kids got plucked up to go freeze their asses off at Bastogne while being bombarded. Or they got to go to the Jungles and die for absolutely no reason.
But yeah, kids have it harder now.
Quote:These days the battle is not reserved for those in the military only. It's a day to day fight to stay alive.
For some, i'd agree. However, you're fooling yourself if you think it was easier in the past. Talk about a fight to stay alive. If it doesn't rain for a month straight you're whole community dies.
Quote:To not wear the wrong colors, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, lest you get labeled with a particular gang and get shot. To not be a woman walking down the street alone at night, because the chances of getting beaten, raped, and killed have escelated so much in the last several years. The list goes on and on. Yeah, maybe during the cold war people lived like that, but then what about afterwards? When the war was over did they continue living as if it wasn't? Yet in our daily lives we are forced to live as though a war is going on, because one is.
And always has been. It's just the enemy that changes.
But whatever. Ok. You're right. Kids today don't stand a chance. So let's just let them give up and piss and moan about how they never had a chance, and about how they're going to screw ourselves up with drugs, and consider suicide. Nothing's their fault. It's just harder now than it was. They're not to blame for any of their choices, it's just the cards they were dealt.
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