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Originally posted by Attalus:
*Shrugs* At least the little buggers ("the MTV Generation") don't vote. Who cares about their opinion? They listen to "rap" and it rots their mind. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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I don't see why you feel the need to be so bloody rude about this Attalus. I thought you were making a joke at first and decided to take it in the light-hearted way I thought you intended it, only to read, further on, that you honestly believe this. I still don't completely believe you're serious though, but I'm less sure of it.
The little buggers don't vote? Sorry, but the article stated the "MTV generation" (and what a nice and biased category they managed to come up with!) was aged
18-29. I don't know, that sounds like they're of a voting age. If you don't care about the opinions of that age category, why chat in Cloudy's Cafe all day long? I haven't seen you discriminate in whom you talked to!
The only true rap fan on these forums that I know of is Vaskez, and at the very least he's thrice as tolerant as you, and a nice, sweet (sorry for your reputation Vask!
), religious, intelligent, funny person to boot.
Maybe you think it's 'cool' to affect some half-serious ageism, but I think if I were to loudly and repeatedly state that people over 40 are half-senile, backwards, have no knowledge of modern society and should not be listened to, I would be called down on that too, and rightly so. A lot of my friends are in the "older" age group, and I'm glad that their minds are still young enough to know that not everyone under 30 (!!) is subject to rap-induced mindrot.
I would be the first to admit that wisdom often comes with age (although that doesn't exclude the existence of twenty-year-olds who are twice as mature as people twice their age) and that the younger generation has many flaws, as any generation does. But they're also the people who will be taking care of you in your old age, should you ever need it, and who will make your country work in 20 years.
[ 05-28-2003, 06:03 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]