I think that several of the “young” commentators here are missing an important point.
You entered the world and found out that it sucks. You found out that it’s more expensive all the time. You found out that the future is unsure and insecure.
And yet, from the moment you attained awareness of the world nothing new or unusual has happened. There were no “good old days.”
There weren’t “good old days” when I became aware of the world either… though when I entered the world unemployment was nearly double what it is now and we were still worried about mutual nuclear annihilation with a country called the Soviet Union. Perhaps this is why I fail to become alarmed by anything that’s happened the last eight years. Just a little awareness of history and it was clearly true that it had been even worse, before. And even today is better, the economy and global security, than what I can remember from when I left school… and we got through that.
In the end there is nothing new under the sun, only a new generation discovering it for the first time.
