WTF is wrong with our young people??

[NNadir]

266. I actually don't "hang out" with a lot of people my age.

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They're retired and with all that running, traveling, gardening and walking, they don't impress me as leading interesting lives.

In my alliterative expression, I am deliberately excluding some friends in a professional organization in which I am active. They are, on reflection, actually old people, but they're young in their minds, and they would be horrified, to see the contempt for the younger generation expressed here.

Of course, they are very much involved in science education at a high level, and are not carrying on about how wonderful they are or were in 1968 and complaining that this isn't just like 1968.

Given a choice, I prefer to hang out with young people. They're not all wrapped up in their hobbies, since they are exploring and hardly sedentary. I suspect the people I know who qualify under my alliterative phrase know how I feel, since I don't engage them. My neighbor is wonderful at gardening. I haven't spoken to her in at least 10 years.

As for young people, "those kids today," well...

Unfortunately, many of them are not all into gardening, since laboring under debt, they're not buying first homes, never mind, second homes.

They live in the real world.