Reply #6: Is your avatar the cover of the live album by Traffic?

[PragMantisT]

Looks like it.

I was born in 1963 and feel like neither a Boomer nor an Xer. I guess I'm a 13er (http://www.wordspy.com/words/13thgeneration.asp), and I wonder what went wrong.

as you said, the sixties showed a lot of promise, but then the tide ebbed. The same with the nineties. If you look at the protesters bussed in to fight the Florida recount, they were all twentysomethings interning in governmental offices.

I write it off to greed and hedonism. Money and sex can make a person do anything. If that doesn't work, fear of death will get the job done. It's very Freudian in it's simplicity.

Actually, I see it less as a generational thing than as a lack of coordination between like minded individuals. Some boomers thought Vietnam was a great idea. They mostly stayed stateside. I'm sure many of the Florida protesters are firmly and securely ensconced on these shores. They make the wars; they don't fight them.

With the advent of the computer age, perhaps coordination is at hand. We certainly do not lack direction.

Keep the faith.