I don't know if it's because you have chubby fingers that aren't accustomed to smartphones but some of the ****e you post is barely comprehensible half the time.
Most of the stuff you post is incomprehensible ****e. Makes you realise why voting was restricted to over 21s in more enlightened times.
Ah yes, the 1960s, a time when abortion and sodomy were crimes and the slogan 'if you want a ****** for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour' was seen as a vote-winner. More enlightened times.
Come back and have a chat when you have left school, sonny. In the meantime stick to reading stuff on the internet and posting nonsense based on the half-baked stuff you have read there.
Castro, I know 18, 19 and 20 year olds who would run rings around you when it comes to history, politics, economic theory and philosophy. Old age doesn't equal intelligence or wisdom. You're a good example of that. Like OLM said, you're only contribution to this forum is correcting other people's typos and grammar, that and posting about your weird nostalgia for the 'good old days'.
It is probable his grandma wasn't there. More things altered because of the views and actions of people who were about in the sixties than any other time. Leave him to reading stuff on the internet and quoting it as fact.
Generation Snowflake right there. Strong sense of entitlement, less resilient than previous generations, not used to exposure to unpleasant/ contrary opinions. But I digress. The sixties in the West almost universally acknowledged as one of the very best decades of the last century. WC66, Beatles/Stones/Small Faces, Apollo X111, miniskirts, lasses going braless, some truly great films, and the end of post war austerity/beginning of something like widespread prosperity .
Castro, mate, I know you think you're clever but you're really, really not. Most of the stuff I read is from books. History, politics, economics, philosophy, anthropology books etc. and from a wide spectrum as well. I've read Marx, Kropotkin and Plato but I've also read Burke, Hobbes and Smith. You read the Daily Mail and think because you're a miserable old bastard your 'life experience' somehow makes you more intelligent than younger people; you're not.
As opposed to the baby boomers? The 'I'm alright, Jack' generation of selfish ****s who took everything then ****ed up the economy, housing market and environment for their children and grandchildren. That's rich.
People try to put us down, just because we get around. You've just reminded me: I need to jack up the rent of my buy-to-let. Needs must and all that.
How strange. I was there, when I was about the same age as you are now -- but obviously far better educated (and in a field which was/is/always will be actually useful) -- but I certainly don't remember that little gem. Could you enlighten us all with a source? Thank you.
Oh dear. You have no idea what other people have read. Books have been around quite a while you know. Nothing more laughable than some bumptious young kid with no experience of life who thinks he knows it all.
You mean the generations who built up the health service, who didn't get all the benefits handed out nowadays and in return get the worst pensions in Europe? The ones who went without to buy things and not expect to have everything on a plate?
Baby boomers didn't build up the health service or the welfare state. That was the previous generation. Have you actually met many millennials? A lot of my mates have apprenticeships or full-time jobs but the ones who go to uni like myself have ****ty zero-hour contract jobs (another legacy of the boomer's selfish voting habits) just to pay rent and afford food. There's a lot I don't like about millennials but baby boomers are the only generation in modern history to leave the world in a worse condition than the one they received from the previous generation. Boomers were born into a post-war environment with universal healthcare, a welfare state, a stable housing market, free university if you were smart enough, a massive rise in productivity and job availability, a cultural revolution and an general atmosphere of hope and after they enjoyed all this by the time the late 1970s and 1980s rolled up, they got greedy and selfish, pulled up the ladder and voted for Thatcher, Reagan and New Labour. And I don't need to have lived during the 60s, 70s and 80s to make these points, the evidence speaks for itself.
