(09-05-2017, 03:47 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-05-2017, 01:14 PM)wrong_box Wrote: it's just that the direction this generation is headed is driving this country backwards

And in saying that you are exactly like every other aging generation since forever.

I have been watching this tread since JIB's first post.  I have to say that the lurking has been enlightening for me.  I have been triggered to respond previously but my "advanced" age and experience has allowed me to refrain up until now.  

My observation for what little it is worth as a member of the over 50 crowd, flsprtsgod or do you prefer your formal title of Florida Sports God?  Oops I digress.  I was once like you, exactly like you.  My arrogance was only exceeded by my ignorance.  

You seem to confuse nostalgia with genuine concern.  I will freely admit as will JIB, WB and most everyone that grew up that time that we wish we could go back to a time when we had no clue.  That is nostalgia and everyone regardless of circumstances experiences it as they get older.  The concerns JIB posted and WB concurred with seem to be lost upon you.  Perhaps I can bridge the gap.  

I grew up in a time where gun racks with actual guns hanging in them in and OMG they were loaded was no big concern.  Can you believe that I got into actual fist a cuffs with other people that had loaded guns in their pick up trucks as well and it never occurred to us to use them?  Win or lose?  What happened that now the first response is to pull a piece and shoot someone over every disagreement?  That is concern.  Something has changed along the way, human life is no longer valued where it once was.  This is a concern, at least to me it is.  

As we evolve, we seem to devolve.  That is the overall concern that I think JIB is trying to convey.

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