Well, we must have forgotten about the 60's. Sex and drugs and rock and roll. Mini skirts, burn the bra, makeup like Barbarella. Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Whisky a Go Go. 1967 Monterrey Pop Festival, Woodstock, concert at Altamont. Heck, let's throw in war protests, race riots, and assassinations. Talk about moral decay. And where is that generation now? Right here in The Villages. Somehow things work out.

Your right. When I walked around in engineer boots with a pack of lucky's rolled up in my sleeve, I was told many times, that my generation was destroying civilization. I say it all the time, I think we are better off today than any other generation before us.

The world is the same but the people have changed all over.

All but me. I may weight 80 lbs more than I did in the 60's, but I think I look and act the same.

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BarryRX: The problem with America today is that we cannot have a serious national conversation about anything. People are so invested in their positions that you can't get them to listen.

The issue here is "world has changed" but it hasn't people are in America have moved from a push for rights into the 60's to a entitlement on everything and with responsibility etc. Merit, sacrifice working out problems on their own has long been forgotten.

It causes me a furrow brow when someone says sex education is needed because all kids have sex. So what we do is teach kids how to have sex instead of offering alternatives and/or ways to deflect it until the person can be responsible for their act. Kids view sex as if it were a hand shake hooking up on a continuum.

In past years and generation abstinence was a way of life. Getting to know a person working on the relationship preparing to support a family were essential and they solidified relationships

I missed the 60's because I married young, was working and going to college at night to build a life for my family. No time to drop out get high, protest because I was trying to survive.

I am praying that this youngest generation has taken stock of each successive generation since the baby boomers and has figured out what works and what doesn't work and what does

Allow me to keep it short and simply say I support what you say !

Especially "The problem with America today is that we cannot have a serious national conversation about anything. People are so invested in their positions that you can't get them to listen. "


Everyone is so entrenched they listen to what is preached by their "preacher" and allow that to guide them in everything.

I have enjoyed reading all of the post on this thread and think all of the ideas are meaningful. However, I think the intent of the original quote was to say..let's stop taking about what is wrong and do what is right.. Now here is the delimea. What one thinks is right (or wrong) may not be in agreement with another. I guess I just wish more people were proactive about their beliefs. It pains me to see people sit around and complain rather than DO something to cause change. Change doesn't have to be dramitic. Change can be small and incremental. Complaint without action seems to be a waste of energy. Be the change you wish to see in the world.. Ghandi

Rubicon, you are right, we are not serious enough.
Preacher, you are correct, we believe the most prominent voice.
Cat, your right, what would Jesus do.
Sage's, your right, only speak kind words.
Golfingnut, I am right, anything for a laugh.

I could go on for ever, but the point is, were all correct in our own way. This is an information web site with limited time and space for input of our opinions.

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Posting a good opinion sets a good example. :ho: