My biggest gripe about the younger generation is that they know or care to know nothing beyond their own generation and seem supremely proud of and content with this. It's what I call the Arrogance of Ignorance.
But as smart as I thought our generation was...look at what we've wrought: global warming; the cretinish George Bush as president; and this God-awful resurgence of Evangelical, Far Right, Bigoted Christianity. And we're also responsible for raising this over-indulged, self-indulgent generation that BK's bitching (and, from where I sit, fairly accurately) about.
Personally, I just hope the world can hold together until I'm dead in another twenty or thirty years and then "apres moi, le deluge." What will I care?
For now, I have my books, my music, my movies, my theatre, good friends, good conversation with said good friends, and a few other creature comforts to envelope myself in and with which to hold off the oncoming Neo-Dark Ages...and after that, it's every man for himself.
