[PenultimateManStanding]

I would guess the median age here to be 32-33. There's some college kids and younger, and a few boomers, but how many really old people over say, late 60s? early 70s. I've seen some people look really old and worn out at 40. but for the most part, over 70 is old and part of the "greatest generation" as that asskisser Brokaw put it. I can sympathize with the young oldergenerationtrashers that I read here sometimes, I know the feeling. My general impression of that older WWII bunch is not good. But they had some great musicians. And they fought like hell.

[TheTurtle]

I just started reading The Fourth Turning today. Interesting discussions of intergenerational conflicts therein. Have you read it, PMS?

[holmes]

not real intelligent. Consumed vast quantities of resources in a horrifyingly short time frame. almost zero ecological common sense. Greedy. neo classical economicly driven. lived for the moment as is obvious in the state of our affairs today.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'I') just started reading The Fourth Turning today. Interesting discussions of intergenerational conflicts therein. Have you read it, PMS?

[holmes]

and if u observe ww2 was mostly profit driven. Nothing was really solved or americas future protected because of it. example wide open borders and mulitculturalism. Thought the war was for future generations protection. nope all a scam and lie. however i respect their fighting ability and toughness. hard ass mothers compared to the gynocracy of glam seen nowadays. soccer moms are the tuff guys now. LOL.

[holmes]

Lee Marvin rocks!

[PenultimateManStanding]

Lee Marvin was a good tough guy actor of that era, he actually was tough fighting in the pacific as a marine.

[holmes]

gen Omar Bradley was a great general.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Audie Murphy was a great soldier and he could play a guitar and sing.

[Schweinshaxe]

JR Ewing was an asshole, but Bobby was OK. They were very old but also very different. I guess there are good AND bad old farts out there.

[holmes]

Darn straight! woody guthrie too. not a soldier tho.

[holmes]

Lets see. My uncles were in saipan, iwo jima and okinawa. Front lines. marines. want to talk about tough sumbitches. still carry out the deer from the mountian. no machine. nothing. no body fat on them GI's. Compare them to our overtechnologied paunchy ground soldiers of today. An easier less disciplined world.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '.')..Nothing was really solved or americas future protected because of it. example wide open borders and mulitculturalism. Thought the war was for future generations protection. nope all a scam and lie...

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '.')..Nothing was really solved or americas future protected because of it. example wide open borders and mulitculturalism. Thought the war was for future generations protection. nope all a scam and lie...

[holmes]

Reality is a revisionist.
Profits are always the driving force in a neoclassicla economic paradigm and for those that lock step to it.
The paradigm implemented and fought over is a profit driven one. The nation is not sustainable. it is on its way out. u want revisionist. in my world the borders would be fire and brimstone. all illegals and their offspring would be rounded up and sent where ever they came from. multiculturalists sent packing. aclu and la raza type orgs crushed. Marshall law implemented. Ecological economics put in in replacement for the neoclassical.
marshall law enacted.
I ahve always saluted the nazi and jap defeat. The motives however looked under a microscope were not all "morals" and "values".
I like to operate under reality not patriotic fervor. ala the nazis. Thingfs are not all they seem. If I am a revisionist so be it. I will never forget the good and bad or the truth.

[holmes]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '.')..Nothing was really solved or americas future protected because of it. example wide open borders and mulitculturalism. Thought the war was for future generations protection. nope all a scam and lie...

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'R')eality is a revisionist.
Profits are always the driving force in a neoclassicla economic paradigm and for those that lock step to it.
The paradigm implemented and fought over is a profit driven one. The nation is not sustainable. it is on its way out. u want revisionist. in my world the borders would be fire and brimstone. all illegals and their offspring would be rounded up and sent where ever they came from. multiculturalists sent packing. aclu and la raza type orgs crushed. Marshall law implemented. Ecological economics put in in replacement for the neoclassical.
marshall law enacted.
I ahve always saluted the nazi and jap defeat. The motives however looked under a microscope were not all "morals" and "values".
I like to operate under reality not patriotic fervor. ala the nazis. Thingfs are not all they seem. If I am a revisionist so be it. I will never forget the good and bad or the truth.

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '.')..Nothing was really solved or americas future protected because of it. example wide open borders and mulitculturalism. Thought the war was for future generations protection. nope all a scam and lie...

[Daculling]

uhmm. It is Friday night and this is the drunk thread right? That being said, the "Greatest Generation" is gone. Dead. Get over it. Now back to my Glen Miller recordings. That not a joke BTW.

/Drunk

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')What's the name of the generation that was in their 20s and 30s during WWII? Guys like Jimmy Stewart's age, maybe that's in the book.