![]() ![]() In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world. In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. ![]() Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion.It made for a lonely world. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. ![]() It was a decade of protest-church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term -the generation gap. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |