Don't Trust Anyone Under 50 4
Ugh, I don’t know where to start with this one. Let’s see, we’ve got the Feds and the States going head to head on a security measure. We’ve got a security measure that isn’t much of a security measure for it’s supposed intended target (does anyone think the problem was we didn’t have people’s ID’s?). I think the one that takes the cake though is the temporary exemption for folks over 50 (“because they aren’t as likely to be a terrorist, illegal immigrant or con artist”). Yes, that generation that coined the phrase “we don’t trust anybody over 30”, now basically doesn’t trust anyone who wasn’t already alive back then. It’s hard to argue with logic that says it is unlikely to find people interested in suicidal missions amongst a group that includes activists for Euthanasia and people with limited life expectancy.
Is anyone else having visions of pigs marching around saying, “four legs good, two legs better”? At what point do we declare that the baby boomers to have not only abandoned the causes of their youth, but to have in the most profoundly hypocritical manner rejected them and literally become the forces they were fighting?
Now hang on there one minute. I’m over fifty but am NOT of that damned generation that coined the “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30” crap. They are in their 60s – sucking up that Social Security everyone under 30 is paying for.
I think I get your larger point. I remember when I was in my 20s and knew everything. Now, at 37, I’m realizing that I’m just starting to acquire the experience and perspective to have opinions that are founded on more than a little slick rationalizing. Maturity counts - there’s a damn good reason only the most devolved societies are led by warrior kings and that evolved societies choose philosopher kings,or at least something approaching that.
I don’t trust anyone under 52. They are in it for themselves, and truly not experienced.
Jerry Rubin ruled.