What's wrong with today's youth?

VERY well spoken, it's pretty hard to top that.

 

Not all youth are like this, I assure you. I have and still do purposely go out of my way to get the kids off their asses, quit talking and do something about the change theyre always bitching about. This is how the cultural revolution needs to begin, plant the seeds. Rally people. FORCE EM TO GET UP AND CHANGE! GIVE EM THE COLD, UGLY TRUTH.

 

I myself am young,and I agree,we need not dwell on the past. We need to think about the here and now. There are plenty of injustices going on now. In fact,there are of things happing now that there were in the '60s.
There is a war. There is pollution. There is massive corporate greed. The rich still get richer while the poor still get poorer. There are people still dealing with an unlevel playing field. There are people who's minds are made up and don't want to be confused with the facts. So why can't we fight for freedom just like the first generation did? Is it because a lot of people call themselves hippies as a fashion statement? Or just care about "going green" even though they don't know why you should? Because they don't know anything about the true lifestyle? Yes. But for all of us real young hippies,let's go and do good,and enjoy ourselves while doing it.

 

One of the wonderful things about being young is that you have not accumulated a great deal - thus there is not so much to lose. As an old hippie, I now have a wife, a child, a mortgage, heavy debts and various other things to rob me of my passion. Joplin said "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". Young people must be the spark that lights the fire - they are the only ones with some amount of freedom left. Us old hippies are trapped - unable to function as a force of change.
It can still be done - as it always has - by the young who are not mired in the web of things.
At that age, if you are trapped, then I pity you because when you are my age life will be shackled, hand and foot. A slave to those who own you.

 

You don't sound young.

Gad, I remember. Up to 1970 I didn't even own a TV. Went from New Orleans to San Francisco owning nothing but some clothes in a backpack and a VW bug. (Came back without the bug)

Even in 1980 when my wife and I moved from New Orleans to Florida, we brot all we owned in a VW bug. Since then every move required a U-Haul + a car. You just accumulate, no matter how simply you live.

 

Gad, I remember. Up to 1970 I didn't even own a TV. Went from New Orleans to San Francisco owning nothing but some clothes in a backpack and a VW bug. (Came back without the bug)

Even in 1980 when my wife and I moved from New Orleans to Florida, we brot all we owned in a VW bug. Since then every move required a U-Haul + a car. You just accumulate, no matter how simply you live. [/QUOTE]

You and me both - the only thing that was mine was a "57" chevy - and a Belaire I might add - 6 cylinder. Beyond that I had nothing but the clothes on my back. Lost my job - no big deal - I ate soup twice a day anyway and I had friends who shared what the had. Jail - (and I've been there for drugs) no biggie - I had three squares a day and a place to sleep. I did as I pleased with no one's thumb on me. If all else failed, I had feet to take me where I wanted to go.
I can't speak for today's young people, I'm too far removed - but things = chains.

 

That's right. Or you can approach it from another angle. As one of those old hippies myself, I purposely try to rid myself of things that hold me down. My mortgage is paid for, my car is paid for, and I don't owe anyone a penny. I can actually get my car into my garage, because it's not cluttered up with stuff.

I have a friend who when he retired sold his house and bought a small travel trailer. He now wanders around the West, moving every couple of weeks. He calls himself an "RV cowboy". His entire sustenance is contained in his trailer.

Personally, that life wouldn't appeal to me. But the essence of it ... the freedom from things, is beautiful, and it's something I try to do also.

 

Ahhh - for the wisdom you have. I fear I mortgaged it all for more and more things. What ever happened to "Do Overs"?

 

Would you, if you could?

 

Honestly, I don't know. I have come to really like things - Yet I long for those days when things were what others had. I plead the fifth.

 

No mortgage - years ago my family owned a small cottage on the jersey shore- - they took us kids there every summer. Well, after I finished traveling around and fucking up with drugs- -I was trusted enough to live there all year round and send mom (82 yrs old now and goin strong) 700 a month for rent. I dont own much, this computer and the 2002 Acura outside are the biggies. WAs forced into retirement when the cable assembly
shop I was at for close to 17 yrs all together, outsourced my division to Korea.
My 25 yr old son lives with me- -his mother ( my ex-wife) lives north of here and battles her demons still- I havent seen her in years

Do-overs? regrets?- - Would I do things differently knowing what I know now??- -Maybe a few- (at the risk of sounding like Sinatra)- - For the most part ,all the shit Ive done,and gone thru when I was young (er)makes me who I am today - Some bad shit happened and some beautiful things happened > its been a helluva ride to this point

Did life get in the way- -sure eventually- It does to the most committed of us old hippies
Thats why you keep the karma of youth deep in your soul- where life cant find it :sunny:

jack

 

Good way to put it. I sometimes feel like I'm younger than the university students who live in my neighborhood.

 

Nothing.. the real question is..... What is wrong with the adults..

roll on the floor... :afro:

hey you ever turn on the Tv set and see youths ranting blah blah blah this that this that.. adults. Yeaps... :biker:

turn on CBS right now.. you will see.. someone just sitting there behind a desk yammering on and on .. This is an incredible waste of human potential..



when the bitch is face up in a casket.. What did she really give to planet earth?/ Sit on pretty little ass telling a story like motherfucking goose..

I think I will get stoned and throw the ball to the kids for a few minutes..

they are getting on my nerves. best way to get rid of them is to join them and make them run for long passes, tire them out ..brb:leaving:

 

Agreed! I have been younger than my daughter for years. There is still hope for one of my grandsons, but he may soon be older than me.

 

Probably quite a bit more than a cynical dude who mistakes "bitter and self-absorbed" for "witty and insightful".

 

Maybe he'll grow younger as he ages

 

I was so much older then, Im younger than that now- - Bobby Dylan:2thumbsup:

 

I knew I got that from somewhere

 

Generally all 'wrongs' that seem typical only for today's youth can be blamed on their parents generation.