[CORK] There's [no?] hope for the kids. And music ..

[Jeff Bone]

On Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003, at 15:03 US/Central, Russell Turpin wrote:

> It's funny how complaints about teenagers repeat
> from generation to generation.

NB, to be clear:  *I'm* not complaining about teenagers --- I'm (a) 
PRAISING the current crop, and (b) slamming the previous crop, who were 
never in fact teenagers but boring risk-averse Stepford mid-lifers even 
when they were, age-wise, "teenagers."

> I believe and hope that
> teenagers today lack a general stressor on the
> order of Vietnam bingo. But it generated a lot of
> good songs. ;-)

Vietnam bingo.  The Bomb...  and now:  terrorism, newer and more random 
and unpreventable nuclear threats, AIDS and similar things, economic 
disaster and disillusionment, and being hated by 4 out of 5 people on 
the planet because of the actions of the unelected "leader" of the land 
mass you happen to have been born on.  Don't worry, Russell --- our 
parents' generation is trying its best to fuck up the current crop of 
kids.  They'll have plenty of stressors as it is, and things're just 
going to get uglier.

The true culture war, to the extent that there is one, is generational 
/ ideological, not some bullshit "liberal / conservative" thing.  And 
it is going to be capital-U UGH-ly.  Me?  I'll take the .5ers.  All of 
'em:  Boomers .5, X.5, Y.5, etc.  The cusp kids of every generation.

But the music will be good!

jb