The spoiled generation

       Well if Tom Brokaw can name a group something like the greatest generation, then so can I. And the generation that followed, often called baby boomers, of which I am a member, I nominate the name "the spoiled generation" in the USA.  Many others might just call this generation the "hippies". Others might even idealistically call it something like applying American idealism to reality, and trying to shape the culture and nation and world  to fit that vision they have; and so have so many already have done it their own way and own times, too. It's so human, I believe.

            As for me, I just have to clean up the mess I am presented with these days in my time and where I live. Mostly that means the basics, like growing food to feed myself,  and having clean water to drink, waste water designs, being warm during the cold season, and security for myself and my food. My time for politically arguing until I am blue in the face is long gone. These days it is a waste of my time, in my opinion.

            And waste of my time is not some passing term. I have only so many hours in the day to do whatever I want to do. This idea applies to schooling, too. Like what is our cultural priority on educating our children...like it is education, indoctrination, or just a jobs program for adults?

            Even bad people know how to exploit this gap, too. And I had better plan for it. Heck, even I know how to exploit the gap. It is not rocket science.

            So applies to even where I live, and even my own training.

            It did not have to happen this way, but it sure looks like it is going to happen this way in the USA. Even the muddle through method doesn't look real good to me these present days. The good old days of going to the grocery store in the USA, or going to the doctor in the USA, are going to end I suspect, or so it seems to me. So much for even the idea of public electricity to power our refrigerators.

            And all I want to do is have an opportunity to influence my future for me and my Family.

            And what do I mean like "clean up the mess I am presented with"?

            Mostly that depends on where one lives. But self-sufficiency in all matters comes to mind; like eating and security for me and my Family and my friends.

            What longer range idea that concerns me is how it will affect future generations, like our children and our grandchildren? Where I live, the USA depression era  in the 1930's affected a lot of my own ancestors, mostly dead now; but it was applied to me as I grew up in a land that had not even been destroyed like so many other places had happened in their land during WWII. So I can expect the same, I believe? Yes. If you buy this idea, then now is good time for leadership by the more senior people, like even parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. It does not have happen again, here, if we choose and lead, even during hard times.

            Even now I call my father, now dead over 10 years, thrifty, vice cheap, the old term I routinely used in an earlier time.

            And, at least in the new world USA, this is still a good place to be in all situations, good or bad.