Ugh. Dennis, Cut the patronizing crap, It's disrespectful and detracts from any validity your argument might have. You're doing a poor enough job of understanding what I am thinking and feeling now, that you'd even presume to predict what my future mindset will be is laughable. No, I don't know what I'll be like in 30 years, but that it's a mystery to me makes it unfathomable to you, and to argue anything else is not wisdom, it's utter foolishness.
No, I do not insist I see everything clearly and that others are mistaken. What I do insist is that by looking at evidence one can draw some fairly sound conclusions. The evidence shows that pretty much every generation since recorded history has bitched and moaned about the failings of the next. The evidence also shows that despite the dire predictions of their elders, each generation continues to speak, and invent, and fuck, and reproduce, and create -- collectively what I meant by 'progress', which was a poorly-chosen word.
The kids these days are fine, and they pretty much always have been.
