Reply #66: They preceded me as well as proceeding me... lol [View All]

[BlooInBloo]

.. but that's neither here nor there.

I said nothing disrespectful about those who preceded me.

Ah - except possibly for "old fogies" - though I meant that only in a bantering way - I can see how susceptible to misinterpretation that is tho - my bad.

Another way to make EXACTLY the same point you chose to ignore in my post is to point out the falsehoods in yours:

(1) Old fogies DID NOT go to war with Hitler. It's false to say that they did. Young people went to war with Hitler.

(2) Old fogies DID NOT face face down segregation and Vietnam. It's false to say that they did. Young people faced down segregation and the war (my parents among them).

I suspect you're deliberately missing my point, in the hopes of fomenting some kind of "ageist outrage". Have fun!

I think older folks being 1/3 of the crowd is a problem - in particular, it means to me that there aren't enough young folks involved. Because it's from the young folks that major social movements and changes come from.

And you didn't address what was clearly the point of my post: that older folks have very little ability to "rouse the activist juices" in young folks. That's why people like Pink are/can be so valuable.

It no fault of Young's that he doesn't have that ability (any more) - it's just a generational thing.