Oh good, a perfect thread for me to use my recently attained 'grumpy old man graduate degree'...
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I have been ranting to my wife about one particular song from last year(which I happen to REALLY like), which I think illustrates the generational differences and DRAMATIC changes that have taken place over the last 4 decades. Who, among us oldies, can forget Bob Dylan and...
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
...essentially, an anthem for a generation that WANTED to change the world. Now, some may say that we failed, but dear god, at least we TRIED. Compare and contrast this with John Mayer's brilliant song...
"And we're still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change"
How did we go so far downhill that in only 40 years, we moved from a generation that went ALL OUT to CHANGE the world, to a generation that just wants to sit around and wait for it to change around them???????
signed
sadly disappointed!!!