Why are younger Americans so miserable?

crapattack

Well, perhaps I hit on retired guy too hard, seems you've been trying to be fairly responsible, it's not about any one person. Maybe you actually do give a crap which is more than I can say for a lot of your cohort, and it's nice your daughter has a bug out option. Ya, Coyote, I'm pissed at boomers (but a certain kind of boomer selfish sellout who doesn't give a crap). Their parents generation are to blame too, and I loved my grandpa very much and he didn't give a crap about the 'environment'. He saw it as a vast empty and dangerous wilderness given to us to be tamed and exploited.

Reality, all the ones who have gone before are responsible and not for wanting better lives ( we all want that ) but for failing to act when they were warned! For failing to notice or care or change. Now we have to figure out how to survive the coming nasty, and I am making preparations. I'm not standing still or looking backward or even looking around pointing fingers. I'm getting on with my day, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for boomers and their farking mercedes, vacation homes and sock portofolios - no one's offering me free land to bug out too.

Maybe I'm jeolous, maybe mad they wrecked such a beautiful thing that belonged to all of us now and in the future. I'm mad they went on a spree with our inheritance and gambled away our future assets and are still! They're having a farking orgy, a farking ORGY, right now on our dollar (seen the markets lately?) and we're gonna have to clean up the party mess without having the fun. When I let myself I can get pretty pissed at them, and I know there are a lot of people in my generation who feel exactly the same way. So when the question is asked - Why are younger Amercians so miserable, why the Fark does that even have to asked? Of course we are and the reasons are plain.
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PolestaR · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2005 Posts: 1047

crapattack

Good points Polestar. Fark 'em.
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Leanan · News Editor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 4490

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>> Regardless of what these people say they do think they are still entitled to everything they "earnt", they won't give you or me a piece of anything. If crapattack or his friend Zordoz really care, why don't they give me 20K so I can setup a RE system over here, so I can do my bit to save the planet?

Huh?

Go out and EARN that 20k like the "oldies" did.

Start your own eco company or something.

PolestaR · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2005 Posts: 1047

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grabby · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Nov 08, 2005 Posts: 1328

Well we sold one toy already and two more are polished and on the market, good start for two days.
Looks like people still want toys. I guess they haven't found this web site yet.

Anyway I was out on the deck looking at our lake, it is about 1/2 mile wides and 4 miles long and averaging 10 feet deep.

My boy asked me, "Dad, How manny barrels of oil would fill that lake?"
So we reached for the calculator, and figured it to be 4 billion gallons./

So my boy goes, well, that would run the world four days.

And I smiled, yes son, four days.

And he asked me about the new superhuge BIODIESEL plant brought in by the governor to begin making 1 MILLION gallons of diesel a MONTH!
IMPRESSIVE!

I said, my boy, how long will it take the new hi-tech cool-as-a-cucmber Democratic-Governor-hanging-on-the-edge-for-re-election-sponsored BIODIESEL RAPESEED PLANT TO FILL THAT LAKE?

so he calculates and calculates.

and says:

4 thousand months...

"How many years is that?"
333
"How many months of growing season do we have here?
5
so about 500 years?

And he goes,
"Yup, biodiesel is a joke"

nuff said.

biodiesel is a politcal game, and don't count on it to even minisculy change anything.
Onset of peak or severity of peak will in no way be even affected.

I have a smart kid. He can't be bought or sold.

Itch · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 30, 2004 Posts: 338

What Frank said. I also blame the authorites -- products of grains and domesticated animals -- that make eating a privledge instead of a right for my misery.

I find the idea of blaming other generations to be meaningless. The collective actions of many generations in West Asia turned a giant forest into a desert. Many generations of Chinese turned a forest into the Gobi desert, and now they are proceeding to turn the rest of their area into a desert. Many generations of Americans turned much of the Great Plains into a desert. These people were not baby boomers; they were a bloated suicide cult who kill themselves by destroying the soil from where their food comes, and shitting in drinking water.

About boomers, there are boomers and there are boomer consumers. The boomers dropped out or attempted to drop out of the suicide cult by forming communities, or moving out into a somewhat remote area with minimal people -- the myth of the rugged indivualist. Many of them failed because they were reabsorbed by the suicide cult. Boomer consumers do what all the other suicide cults do, only they have more resources to kill themselves and everyone else around them faster.

The suicide cult leaders have spent much time proselytizing new generations to do the same things as before, and they'll all eventually kill themselves and most people around them. People who aren't a part of the suicide cult will probably have a better chance of surviving the actions of the swarm.