The Q&A Boards Idle Ramblings

[Newly2b]

In reply to your post re the generation gap on the Q&A board, I once read an article where the writer was knocking the younger generation as being out of control, immoral, disrespectful, unethical, etc. I thought it was written by a contemporary writer until I got to the end and discovered it was written by a Roman in the last days of Rome! I guess the progression of the generations and their attitudes to one another don't change much -- the older generation always seems to feel the younger generation isn't up to snuff.

My own theory as to why that is is that we become imprinted in early childhood with the values of the world we are born into. As we grow older we express ourselves, often rebelling against those values and establishing new ones for our own generation. We continue to grow and change through about middle age, when it begins to become more difficult to adjust to new attitudes and mores that are constantly moving further and further away from those with which we were originally imprinted.

As we grow old we begin to complain about how the world is changing for the worse as we become less and less able to change with it until ultimate we give up trying and become alienated from a world we no longer understand or can conform to.

That seems to be pretty much the progression of life and the reason for differences of attitudes we have at different stages of our lives. This is the generation gap.

Newly