Posts by Petra
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Wanna see me gut a fish?
Yup! :D
I had to laugh at some kids on one of those weekend fishing shows. When the reporter asked one sweet little girl what she liked most about fishing, she replied "the guts". lol
Islander, I'm a huge poetry lover, and I'm getting the gist that you are published?
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One of the best docos I've ever seen, Jeremy. You should check out The Mayfair Set by the same director, as well. Enlightening...and deeply troubling.
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Yeah, sorry, Islander. I'm projecting a bit. Telling the story from only one perspective of the times. I used to work in music (not as a musician), radio, and marketing in the 80's. Many of the people I knew back then were "the beautiful people" - as they often referred to themselves, actually. No shortage of entitlement in those halls, I can tell you!
But I am projecting, and I know there was a lot of hardship elsewhere. My own entitled self was blind to it at the time, I guess - despite my politics. Too busy being cool and trendy, and worldly and that.
But at least I'm putting my hand up and confessing to having been one of those entitled prats! Redemption. :)
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Oops, sorry - I was just editing my post - meant to say temperance, not prudence.
No, they were definitely not saints - but they saved for things and went without to get necessities. They didn't squander as much as [some of] my gen did.
But even those that didn't squander, still caught the entitlement bug. We deserved everything our precious unique little snowflake selves desired.
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You can't blame the parents. Blame the marketeers. By the time most us of got the entitlement bug - at least in the Babyboomer gen - we'd left home and were hanging out with New Agers who said the universe will provide and we're all special little snowflakes who deserve nothing but the best, and marketeers who said we were beautiful and fabulous and deserved everything we ever desired, irrespective of need. It was our time; we were abundant and always would be; the world was our oyster; and we totally owned it, man. Golden sunbeams and slick ad men told us so. Pop songs backed them up, and movies confirmed it. Absolutely Fabulous satirised it brilliantly, and we all laughed and quaffed champagne and snorted cocaine and looked gorgeous. lol.
Century of the Self tells the story well. (excellent doco, think I've mentioned that before). We were happiness machines, and we wanted no policemen in our heads.
I'm not making excuses for why I'm not among the wealthier of my gen, by the way. I got to this low point all on my own, really. But it was not without cultural influences that fed a sense of entitlement that caused some of us, at least, to squander what our parents had taught us about thrift and temperance.
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lol. Sorry, Jan! ;-p
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"Well, you're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Lemming!"
The brush is too broad. Not only in years, but as you say, Islander, culture and other demographics.
And I'm not a wealthish babyboomer because, like Dyan, I was all about the travel, and the expensive clothes, and the parties - gawd, it was wonderful! - but it couldn't last forever. I just didn't think ahead, everything was instant gratification - and instant gratification was what was sold to us - we deserved it; don't worry, be happy; and all that. And in the end? Well, die young, stay pretty. Ridiculous. lol.
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My pleasure, nzlemming. :)
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Oh, I dunno, B Jones - Helen Clark was in office for a pretty long time. Admittedly, she got flak for how she looked, or dressed, or spoke - far more than a man ever would - but she was there, at the top, for ages.
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Dude, i'm a man
For you, Jeremy. These guys are bloody great. :)