http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2007/11/27/how-active-are-you/ The Georgetown Voice Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2007/11/27/how-active-are-you/comment-page-1/#comment-39306 A.R. Richardson Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:22:14 +0000 http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2007/11/27/how-active-are-you/#comment-39306 I enjoyed the article. What irritates me is that the boomers expect my generation to adopt the tactics that a minority of them employed almost a half-century ago. The spirit of protest, at least in its full force, is not something they have maintained, and thus they have given us few examples of widespread activism during our lifetime. This argument is, like so many others that wax poetic about the "good old days," a demonstration of how out of touch older generations are. Don't tell me that my generation's activism hasn't seen results. I enjoyed the article. What irritates me is that the boomers expect my generation to adopt the tactics that a minority of them employed almost a half-century ago. The spirit of protest, at least in its full force, is not something they have maintained, and thus they have given us few examples of widespread activism during our lifetime. This argument is, like so many others that wax poetic about the “good old days,” a demonstration of how out of touch older generations are. Don’t tell me that my generation’s activism hasn’t seen results.

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