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To: Neocon who wrote (2630)	2/20/2002 11:24:36 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) of 7720

Yes, he is trying to assert a historical basis to justify a claim that we are headed for a depression ala 1929. And while I do not agree with that, I do think that history does repeat itself. I believe this is an accurate description of baby boomers: The baby boomer generation, those born between 1943 and 1961, are especially prone to self-regard and especially dismissive of traditional restrictions on conduct. Brought up in the age of Benjamin Spock permissiveness and influenced in their high school years by the wide dissemination of Heisenberg's 1925 Uncertainty Principle (that the position and velocity of an object are intrinsically unknowable) as well as by all the avant-garde uncertainties of the modernist and post-modernist artistic movements, the baby boomer generation inevitably tends to believe deep down that there is no such thing as objective truth, that "is" can have several meanings, and that short-term gratification should be pursued at all costs. President Clinton did not cause this trend, he was merely symptomatic of it. And, I think that is not a permanent human state, that the Millenial generation will restore traditional civic and moral values. But, I didn't know that I was a cynical nihilist.

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