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some of us are saying there was nothing wrong with the boomers. We, like people born before and after us, were shaped by unique circumstances. If ther...

For those of at least with some memory or knowledge of the 1950s, it wasn't a bad time. After all, what's not to like about a post-war boom? Houses be...

What geo-media event was so significant that it would serve as a watershed between age groups in the last 40 years? Sorry, I don't buy the idea that t...

I may have been a smart ass before you were born. How old are you?

or sinks them.

Just look at Tony Soprano's mother -- one wicked old hag.

:rofl:

Nobody desired any technology BEFORE it existed. Take the first electronic communication technology -- the telegraph. Once some lines were in place, d...

You need better technology, apparently.

I don't know why you two are arguing when it is perfectly clear that the only people capable of accomplishing great events are white people, and somet...

Jerzy Kosinski's Being There is a great satirical story, but what do you think it illustrates in the context of maturity? Addlepated Chance Gardner is...

As one of the BBC commentators said, three years after the Brexit vote Parliament is still unable to decide what it should do with the vote. Brexit, I...

Yes, my good man.

My question is that why does Western society display a deficit in the process of respect and regard for their elders? — Wallows There's an apt for tha...

Every society on earth puts together reasonably flattering images of who, what, and how they are. The facts my not square with the reality. In general...

You could be. I don't know what T Clark was like when he was 40. But he seems to be more of a Liberal/Athenian/Artist than leaning authoritarian/Spart...

True enough, but it tends to be most intense during one's youth. A lot of resources are required to get a person from conception to age 21. Even more ...

Artists can't be assholes? Come now.

Noah, you intensified a "deficit" of respect to "despising" the elderly. Wallows and T Clark didn't use terms close to "despising".

He used to be an animal. Then he got into philosophy and pulled himself up by his four dewlaps.

I don't know whether animals can deceive themselves or not. They seem capable of deceiving others. (Squirrels who fake burying nuts when they think th...

I would say that the amount of mental energy one has to apply to keep from leaving the unsatisfactory work place and highly unappealing tasks probably...

The gated community phenomenon you describe is a hell-world kind of thing, for sure. Just be aware that not all boomers (people between 1945 and 1965 ...

You seem to be in an unusually bad mood with this topic.

There are no innocents. Everybody is guilty.

Good question. Akanthinos, go to your room and stay there until we call you.

And LIKE our parents who were born in the 1920s (to be old enough to serve in WWII) we were not actually in charge. The decision to go to war in 1917 ...

Which conditions are we talking about here? Are we talking about the feverish anti-communism of the 1950s, or about the Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg...

If men who practice sodomy can get a day of recognition, (Gay Pride Day); if the dead can get Halloween; if Jesus can get both Christmas AND Easter (n...

That's the question. First, we haven't done all that much to help them out economically. We could do better at that task. Still, there will always be ...

The supply of love is unlimited; giving doesn't deplete the store. You will need to delineate the difference between "love" and "True Love". Is it wha...

Perhaps I was too hasty in making that generalization. But it does seem to me that more elaborate automated processes, greater bureaucratic complexity...

All of this is precisely the truth.

Here's a current 3D project -- printing prosthetic limbs.

It is a clumsy sentence, but I don't see any confounding grammatical error. People aren't just letting others' expressions be stand as written, but no...

Hmmm. Hadn't thought about that. Have they tried printing in zero gravity?

I was raised within the Mainline Protestant province of the Judeo-Christian religious empire, and I wish I could tell you how it framed my core values...

The specter of Hanover is haunting Unenlightened.

But interaction is one of the pleasures of philosophy. Otherwise, we could just write in our private journals and publish posthumously. Who wants to m...

Maybe the only people who can moderate properly are people who really don't want to be moderators? The trouble with those ideal people is that they ju...

It seems to me that i read a laboratory had been able to produce bits of tissue using a 3D layering device loaded with the appropriate material--colla...

I like the Guardian 85% of the time; I always like the comments section when they are opened below an editorial. The Guardian readership seems to be q...

Not many helpful experiences, myself. The main thing would be that one can travel a long way on a bicycle, especially if the weather is nice. Like, 50...

Someone (James Howard Kunstler) provides a reasonably good picture of post-apocalypse life and skills. In his 4 part A World Made by Hand series (nove...

Who will survive a barely survivable global disaster? Probably the survivors will be those with the most adaptable set of skills for surviving. People...

Hey, you found the lost post in two minutes. You are not, apparently, all that confused.

My city and county collect trash, recyclable paper, glass, metal, and plastic, yard waste and compostable kitchen waste (which includes paper towels a...

That's so obvious, I don't know why I didn't get it right away!

I wasn't sure about that either. I'm sure most people here have thought it, if they did not say it in so many words.

Nobody has said so yet: a rapid response to the climate and multivariate environmental crises affecting the planet would be an immediate economic disa...