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To: Akula who wrote (4319)	10/20/1999 8:35:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Very true. And I didn't churn butter, that was sissy work. I chopped firewood. JLA

To: Akula who wrote (4319)	10/20/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 6418

Those kids today . . . They just don't have enough respect for their elders. True. But your generation has no idea how to show true disrespect for elders. You are rank amateurs compared to our generation. Has your generation burned their draft cards as a show of disrespect for the war their elders wanted to send them into? Has your generation tuned in, turned on, dropped out to show their disrespect for the whole culture of their parents? Has your generation developed any slogan even approaching the disrespect of "never trust anybody over 30"? Has anybody in your generation had the courage to go to prison for refusing to pay war taxes? Has your generation ever taken over a college president's office? Held a love-in? Hell, your generation's version of Woodstock was a disaster and a disgrace. Has your generation ever been beaten by cops for sitting-in segregated restaurants or movie theaters or for marching in areas where they weren't wanted to show disrespect for the racist culture of their parents' generation? Has your generation produced any martyrs to match those of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner and so many other young men and women willing to risk injury and even death for disrespecting the culture they were asked to participate in? Has your generation marched and picketed and leafleted and doorbelled and worked their asses off in support of any political candidates with even a tenth the liberal credentials of Bobbie K, McCarthy, Humphrey, even Muskie? My God, your generation's liberal hero is the sage of Chappaquiddick and perpetual drunk, Teddy Kennedy. Gag. Does your generation even know what candidates have ever run for President on the Communist Party line? Your generation are amateurs in disrespect, and in most other things except playing video games (there I admit you have us beaten badly). You may talk the talk of disrespect, but you don't have the guts or commitment to walk the walk. When my generation were in their teens and 20s we were showing a true commitment to disrespect, to shaking up a complacent establishment. We put our bodies on the line, we risked jail and death, we faced fire hoses and police dogs, to challenge the established ways and show our disrespect for the culture and values our parents were expecting us to take on. When it comes to the obligation of youth to rebel, to disrespect, to shake up the establishment, your generation is a stark disgrace. You may not respect your elders, but you damn well need to respect the commitment to disrespect which we demonstrated, and which your generation has so totally and cravenly abandoned.