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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (109)12/24/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Tom Trader  Read Replies (3) of 548
 
>>People like me get real ticked when the younger generation implies we are drug addicts<<

I can relate to that -- but some of my compatriots came pretty close to it. They probably thought the same of me!

Interesting thing is that I have a different view of the 60s than is portrayed today. Sure it was a period of turmoil and upheaval but it was also a period when the youth of America had a social conscience probably unlike any other period in the 20th century, other than the Spanish civil war. I think that the 80s were when the notion of a social conscience was least in vogue. I recall this young guy, completing his undergrad who was an intern working for me in the early 80s, during the consulting phase of my life. He was a Reaganite through and through -- and looked at me like I was off my rocker when I suggested to him that at his age if he did not have a trace of revolutionary fervour, then he was missing out.

I went to a party last night in my sub-division -- and was surrounded by a bunch of Clinton bashers. It was so extreme that I found myself defending him! I seem to go from one extreme to the other -- in California I lived in probably the most liberal area in Southern California -- and here I am amidst a bunch of hard core conservatives. I guess they are not going to invite me again.
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