by TheTurtle » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 21:28:11
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('stupid_monkeys', 't')here is a simple rebuttle to your arguments: survival =/= excess
rationalize it any way you want, but your generation specifically had a clear choice...and boy did you choose.
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Many of my generation "tuned in, turned on, and dropped out". Many of us marched in the streets in protest against the way things were being foisted upon us. Many of us chose to consume less and be nicer to the planet.
Heck, I was there when Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970.
But it seems to me that there was a juggernaut rolling along and most people just got swept up in its wake. I seriously doubt that most people of my generation saw a clear choice, let alone MADE a choice of any kind.
Life somehow just seems to happen.
It's easy, in retrospect, to look back and think, "there was the defining moment." But I remember the derision with which most people greeted Jimmy Carter's exhortation to conserve energy. And I remember the hoopla that brought Ronald Reagan into office to the tune of "Happy Days are Here Again!"
Most people didn't have a clue. And they just went on to live their consumptive lives.
The other day I asked my wife, "WTF ever happened to the Age of Aquarius?"
Damned if I know.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” (Ted Perry)