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LightHeartedMaam -> RE: Deja vu (5/31/2007 2:29:33 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LdyScarletDomina
I'm young so maybe I don't have the memory based experience to qualify a response but I am beginning to see in the high schools in my area a definate return to some of the basic beliefs of "hippies." generally, young folk of my acquaintence (16-21 due to volunteer opportunities) seem to be politically liberal, intelligent, sexually open and accepting, and concerned about whether there will be a country left for them when their parents/government/ "grownups" are done with it. Most of them are disgusted with the religious junk they are being fed, discouraged by the useless laws on drugs and tired of being treated like less intelligent human beings.
I don't think its just the BDSM lifestyle, I think I personally see more and more disgust with the current order every day in the younger generation. And that encourages me. Hopefully they'll have their own sexual and political revolution and their voices can be heard.
Thank you OP for posting this.
Lady Scarlet
One of my favorite quotes is :"If you want to know what lies on the road ahead, ask those coming back"
But they never do, they have to find it out for themselves. Kind of like Dorothy in the Land of Oz
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Back then you guys were pretty groovy....But then you grew up and changed your mindset....Lost the ability ot think freely like a younger person....Now too many of you Support a President and an unjust war....Have become pro-life...and all too often now detest the very same people that you once were or idolized, you watch Fox, curse the fact that you are aging and remember how good things were when you were young.....Hypocrites.
Unfortunately- those that came to maturity in the 80's went back to the "establishment" becoming very materialistic.
We swapped "free thinking" for reality. You'll find out on your own when you children call you a hypocrite. Each generation blames the one be for. We even wrote a song about it: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mike+&+the+mechanics/the+living+years_20093565.html
Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid thats all we've got
You say you just didn't see it
He says its perfect sense
You just cant get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we didn't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
Its the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be o.k.
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we didn't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
Its too late when we die
To admit we didn't see eye to eye
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