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JHB

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22. None of what you list are new or unique to this generation

Reply to grantcart (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 3, 2013, 06:57 PM

Nov 2013

#1 is as old as any warranty offer, and doesn't even get into buy-it-wear/use-it-return-it people that have been around as long as stores have offered to take back merchandise.

#2 isn't anything new either. People are complex and have different likes and interests. That includes an ability to tune out or gloss over stuff they don't like mixed in with stuff they do.

#3 I'd attribute to the decay (and in some areas destruction) of civics education and organized efforts to promote citizen involvement. If no one instills in them that all elections are important, not just presidential ones, we all have to deal with the time they spend on the learning curve.

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