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To: benwood who wrote (109253)	10/21/2010 2:50:46 PM
From: SG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Actually, I think it is (us) Boomers who have some distant history of taking to the streets;perhaps messing with our SS as the Tea Partiers say they want to (THEY are taking SS?) will get us there, like the French, who have big history of all ages. The twenty-somethings, I think, expect less of government and won't be setting up barricades anytime soon. The Ipads would probably take care of them. SG

To: benwood who wrote (109253)	10/21/2010 4:19:23 PM
From: rr_burns	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

So does it all comes to some kind of electronic "bread and circuses" (ipads and ipods) and the current version of the apocryphal answer, Zhou En-lai is supposed to have given to the question: 'What do you think of the French Revolution?' Answer: 'It is too early to tell.'" I have often thought there was something essentially autistic about ipods and "personal" music devices. Maybe that is their great socio-political advantage today, in so far as they create consumers with political attention deficit disorder, AND generate cashflow for someone in asia. In the 60's a transistor radio delivered a rallying cry as well as advertisement, and was made closer to home.