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Originally Posted by BenBanned
And good luck "educating" the youth, we know that our actions have a negative effect on the way things work.
Anyone steaming from the ears yet?
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Nope. We older folks have been there and done that. Here's what my father's genertion had to say:
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Originally Posted by The Times they are a Changin'
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a' changin'!
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And how much did the world actually change? Not very much it turns out because the revolutionaries grew up. My generation had it's own ideals. I was so disconnected from my generation that I can't figure out what those ideals were, but there was certainly a lot of intergenerational strife. (The people who I hung out with though that computers would be the great equalizer, believed that information wanted to be free, and some ended up being movers and shakers behind FLOSS. Yet I don't think that was typical of my generation as a whole.) The thing is, we ended up growing up.
I'm not saying that the world shouldn't change. I am saying that it is easy to be a revolutionary when you see injustice but don't understand why the world works as it does. And once you realize why the world works as it does, you will probably realize that change usually just shuffles around the injustices rather than removes them.