“Youth’s ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll.”
-- Time Magazine article in 1951 via a New York Times story, describing the youth of the the Great Depression and comparing that generation to ours today.
please stop me if i'm tempted by the frills of the corporate world.
i am going to wanderlust until i'm too old to walk.
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of course, the generation that grew up during the great depression was later called The Greatest Generation.
maybe since we've suffered the great recession, we'll be called The Pretty Good Generation
yup, perhaps :)
"Surveys have shown young people becoming more civic-minded in the last four years, and those who study them suggest this will increase, if only because the jobs will be in creating the public institutions and infrastructure of a new economic order.
And with the assumptions of the past decade now popped, the older among the recession youth might feel bolder striking out in more creative directions.
Typically, applications to medical and law schools go up in a downturn, as young people look for safe haven. Applications to the Peace Corps and Teach for America, meanwhile, are up, as are those to some divinity schools and public policy programs.
Professor Dickstein notes that the 1930s, too, were freeing for a particular kind of young adult. There was no art market to speak of, so artists felt less constrained by commercial expectations. The thinkers who would go on to be the public intellectuals of their day, people like Irving Howe and Alfred Kazin, did not seek the traditional path of a doctorate because they knew there were no academic jobs"
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates
check your hotmail!
china sucks!
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