“I want to tell you about the town of Stockbridge Massachusetts where this happened here. They’ve got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car. But when we got to the scene of the crime there were five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years and everybody wanted to get in a newspaper story about it…” (Nov. 1965)
From Alice’s Restaurant Massacree. By Arlo Guthrie.
When one generation gets old they often reminisce about the times when they were young. I was born at the beginning of the age of television. Black and white and only two channels, on ABC, the other CBS. Cable and NBC didn’t arrive on my street until 1966. We didn’t have dial phones, party lines still existed. Standard shift meant cars with a clutch and you had to move a stick to shift. The sound system was an AM radio, FM was an option, as was A/C. The most modern office equipment was a electric typewriter. Needed a copy? That’s what carbon paper was for.
For our Parents the technological advancements that occurred in the 60’s were nothing short of amazing, (We landed on the moon for crying out loud) compared to the times of their youth in the 1920’s and 30’s. But airplanes and radio existed then, not for their parents who still used the horse and buggy.
The same holds true today for us baby boomers. The internet, laptop computers, cell phones, and flat screen T.V’s to name a few examples.
But while technology has progressed in quantum leaps, something else has regressed. Our love and desire for freedom. That, along with moral relativism which has all but destroyed societies ability and desire to state unequivocally what is right and what is wrong.
It seems to me that millennials, unlike us old fogies have no concept of history. It’s like the world was created the day they were born. And their corruption by government run schools and colleges has been very through.
They’re just such little snowflakes. They start to melt whenever their worldview is questioned. Being pro-life on campus is just the latest.
They want everything to be “free”, free college, free healthcare, free from worry. free from ideas they don’t agree with. Make the “rich” pay for it. They want to be sheep, to be taken care of. What they fail to realize is that sheep require shearing. and sometimes led to slaughter. But it will never be them, always those other people.
According to Wikipedia Arlo is now a registered Republican. Was a Ron Paul supporter, and is a believer in the Constitution. He’s disappointed in both political parties. As am I.
Arlo remembers a time and place when “littering” was considered a major crime and Tricky dick didn’t get away with it. But today if you have a “D” by your name you can. It’s the Democrats who want to shred the Constitution.
Arlo remembers what it was like when he was young. Millennials can’t conceive of getting old, or ever considering that they might be wrong.
Troubling times indeed.