Post by LOVELYRITA on Nov 12, 2006 22:14:01 GMT -5
In another thread, DOC mentioned about being crazy, something to the effect about carrying around a 500 pound weight for 40 plus years....
Well, I wanted to go off on that subject of a generation "lost In space".
This is dedicated to all of those who are over 40, and I may add that some are WAY over 40, while some of us may be somewhat over 40...
Anyhow, I think of it like this.
We are a generation who were born after 1945....
And we were raised watching programs like "Leave It To Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" where families were depicted as the father being a business man in suit who goes to work, and comes home to a perfectly clean house, with a wife who is perfectly fit, wears a fancy dress, pearls and high heels to do housework. The problems are solved over a span of 30 minutes.
We were trained to think that is what our lives were supposed to be like.
Then we grew up and saw "The Other War" that nobody wanted to fight, and nobody seemed to know why we were there, and nobody won.
Times changed, people changed, music changed, the way we looked at family, at others, and ourselves changed.
Our early educational tv was not cute little furry muppets singing clever songs, but Black and white, and maybe a little later color, and we saw Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Ding Dong School, Howdy Doody, and the Mickey Mouse club with Annette and Cubby.
We can remember all those nifty candy novelty items that are now called "vintage"...
We can remember Hi Fi's and phonograph records with the hideous scratches that sounded like a campfire in the background...that loud crackling sound was NOT part of the song...as we now can clearly hear on CD's...
Our homes had one tv, and maybe one small B&W "second" version. No computers, cell phones, video games, game boys...
We didn't have all those high tech toys, we had tinker toys, lincoln logs, pogo sticks, marbles, jacks, jump ropes, hula hoops, skates...
We can remember being able to buy a soda, candy and chips for less than 25 cents.
We remember drive in movies, drive in food (Like American Graffitti) NOT like the drive throughs we have today.
We had to use our imaginations, we had to think of things to do. Not like the toys and programming that does the thinking for the kiddies now.
But we've gone through such a change of relaxed and somewhat calm "normal" world, that we could leave our homes and not have to lock the doors. We had front porches, which meant you wanted to talk to your neighbors. Then homes began having decks in the BACK of the house, and left us build high fences to keep neighbors out, and we became recluses..withdrawn...only keeping with a small circle of family and friends.
We have more time because of "modern conveniences" but it seems that there is "less" time for people and things that we cannot keep up with.
For those who frequent this site, we grew up with the Beatles.. we grew up with the image of the four mop tops who evolved into the pschedelic icons and the image of the band in their last days. We bought the music, it served us well as the soundtrack of our lives.
A generation lost in space...perhaps so, we've carried a load of the simple life we once knew, or was the image of the world we wanted to have...
We've aged, we realize that the big clock keeps ticking, we can't do some of the things we used to do, or we don't want to do the things we used to do. We realize our mortality. We look for something to believe in, maybe we can say some of us found that something to believe in, and maybe some of us are still looking for something or someONE to believe in.
We look at the world around us and we see crimes, wars, starvation, evil, and perhaps some of us are afraid of those things whether we admit to it or not, and trying to keep one's sanity in the midst of the craziness that is happening, like getting in the car and driving in traffic and wondering who left the nuts out?
There's heavy burden that we each bear. Perhaps financial, perhaps health, if not our own health, perhaps a loved one, maybe the death of a loved one(s) has left a void or voids, maybe it's emotional, spiritual, mental...or some of the above, most of the above, ALL of the above...
..things we enjoyed, like the Beatles, and noticing the change in
"Paul" and now realizing he was replaced, a shattering image...
Maybe the very idea of JPM being replaced was traumatic, or perhaps just part of the deception of our "national history" or things that happened in a "religious setting" with "organized religion" has left one confused, saddened, disgusted, angry, or just in a place that is symbolic of other tragic events in each life...
We may have been rejected in some way...or maybe we are just weary and battle worn and just do what one feels is the best thing to do to "endure" without breaking the law, or totally "snapping"...
Whatever gets us through the night....so to speak...People in this age group has experienced the most drastic changes in one's culture that it's almost a "culture shock" and trying to endure is not an easy thing.
For me, coming to this forum has now become a place to examine the clues or possibilities involvingJPM and the Beatles, because many of us grew up with them, so to speak. But it's also a creative escape...Getting away from the madness of getting out of bed and doing all one can to go to work and endure another day at the mill.
Creatures of habit we are, and we have taken up residence in this forum to share clues and ideas...and once in a while to escape..to unload...to create....to explore...
We've seen tons of films/tv programs with their eyes in the skies...
There was a fascination with outer space..and we seem to be lost in space....
But letting loose in this forum occasionally acting a bit crazy, doesn't mean we are totally bonkers, maybe we are and are in denial....
But it's a coping mechanism that keeps us thinking, and keeps our fingers typing, and keeps us out of the bars....well, most of us...some of us...a few of us...... well at least out of the gutters....
I hope...
Anyhow, that's my little shpeel on the baby boomers, a generation lost in space.....internet space...
Something like that....
Well, I wanted to go off on that subject of a generation "lost In space".
This is dedicated to all of those who are over 40, and I may add that some are WAY over 40, while some of us may be somewhat over 40...
Anyhow, I think of it like this.
We are a generation who were born after 1945....
And we were raised watching programs like "Leave It To Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" where families were depicted as the father being a business man in suit who goes to work, and comes home to a perfectly clean house, with a wife who is perfectly fit, wears a fancy dress, pearls and high heels to do housework. The problems are solved over a span of 30 minutes.
We were trained to think that is what our lives were supposed to be like.
Then we grew up and saw "The Other War" that nobody wanted to fight, and nobody seemed to know why we were there, and nobody won.
Times changed, people changed, music changed, the way we looked at family, at others, and ourselves changed.
Our early educational tv was not cute little furry muppets singing clever songs, but Black and white, and maybe a little later color, and we saw Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Ding Dong School, Howdy Doody, and the Mickey Mouse club with Annette and Cubby.
We can remember all those nifty candy novelty items that are now called "vintage"...
We can remember Hi Fi's and phonograph records with the hideous scratches that sounded like a campfire in the background...that loud crackling sound was NOT part of the song...as we now can clearly hear on CD's...
Our homes had one tv, and maybe one small B&W "second" version. No computers, cell phones, video games, game boys...
We didn't have all those high tech toys, we had tinker toys, lincoln logs, pogo sticks, marbles, jacks, jump ropes, hula hoops, skates...
We can remember being able to buy a soda, candy and chips for less than 25 cents.
We remember drive in movies, drive in food (Like American Graffitti) NOT like the drive throughs we have today.
We had to use our imaginations, we had to think of things to do. Not like the toys and programming that does the thinking for the kiddies now.
But we've gone through such a change of relaxed and somewhat calm "normal" world, that we could leave our homes and not have to lock the doors. We had front porches, which meant you wanted to talk to your neighbors. Then homes began having decks in the BACK of the house, and left us build high fences to keep neighbors out, and we became recluses..withdrawn...only keeping with a small circle of family and friends.
We have more time because of "modern conveniences" but it seems that there is "less" time for people and things that we cannot keep up with.
For those who frequent this site, we grew up with the Beatles.. we grew up with the image of the four mop tops who evolved into the pschedelic icons and the image of the band in their last days. We bought the music, it served us well as the soundtrack of our lives.
A generation lost in space...perhaps so, we've carried a load of the simple life we once knew, or was the image of the world we wanted to have...
We've aged, we realize that the big clock keeps ticking, we can't do some of the things we used to do, or we don't want to do the things we used to do. We realize our mortality. We look for something to believe in, maybe we can say some of us found that something to believe in, and maybe some of us are still looking for something or someONE to believe in.
We look at the world around us and we see crimes, wars, starvation, evil, and perhaps some of us are afraid of those things whether we admit to it or not, and trying to keep one's sanity in the midst of the craziness that is happening, like getting in the car and driving in traffic and wondering who left the nuts out?
There's heavy burden that we each bear. Perhaps financial, perhaps health, if not our own health, perhaps a loved one, maybe the death of a loved one(s) has left a void or voids, maybe it's emotional, spiritual, mental...or some of the above, most of the above, ALL of the above...
..things we enjoyed, like the Beatles, and noticing the change in
"Paul" and now realizing he was replaced, a shattering image...
Maybe the very idea of JPM being replaced was traumatic, or perhaps just part of the deception of our "national history" or things that happened in a "religious setting" with "organized religion" has left one confused, saddened, disgusted, angry, or just in a place that is symbolic of other tragic events in each life...
We may have been rejected in some way...or maybe we are just weary and battle worn and just do what one feels is the best thing to do to "endure" without breaking the law, or totally "snapping"...
Whatever gets us through the night....so to speak...People in this age group has experienced the most drastic changes in one's culture that it's almost a "culture shock" and trying to endure is not an easy thing.
For me, coming to this forum has now become a place to examine the clues or possibilities involvingJPM and the Beatles, because many of us grew up with them, so to speak. But it's also a creative escape...Getting away from the madness of getting out of bed and doing all one can to go to work and endure another day at the mill.
Creatures of habit we are, and we have taken up residence in this forum to share clues and ideas...and once in a while to escape..to unload...to create....to explore...
We've seen tons of films/tv programs with their eyes in the skies...
There was a fascination with outer space..and we seem to be lost in space....
But letting loose in this forum occasionally acting a bit crazy, doesn't mean we are totally bonkers, maybe we are and are in denial....
But it's a coping mechanism that keeps us thinking, and keeps our fingers typing, and keeps us out of the bars....well, most of us...some of us...a few of us...... well at least out of the gutters....
I hope...
Anyhow, that's my little shpeel on the baby boomers, a generation lost in space.....internet space...
Something like that....