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beltainefaerie -> RE: how sad our younger generation is today (12/2/2006 9:42:28 AM)
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Dear slavejlb,
In your pain, and disappointment, it is easy to lash out. However, I disagree with blanket statements about any group. They are usually said because someone has had one or two bad experiences with a person from whatever that group is and they start to create a stereotype. Consider that if the experience was with an African American Dom and such a statement was made, it would be seen as the racist stereotype it was. People who want to judge young people as having no integrity, or believe all fat people are inviting and cuddly, or all of any group is whatever they have experienced, are really just looking for easy ways to classify their world without further thinking and interacting. I would personally find such closed-minded judgement an unacceptable attribute in a sub, dom or even a friend.
However, all that said, I do still find that in our current culture, many people are more irreverent, irresponsible, or rude than in previous generations. I think you find it in the young and old alike, though the old may remember a time when you could correct stranger's child and not have the parent bite your head off, a time when people actually sent thank you notes for every gift they received and party attended. Sure, there were repressed, hideous things happening in times of old, but I for one, try to live my life with my grandmother's values, in daily politeness at least. As a teacher, I insist on politeness from students to all teachers and other students. It is really the insistence that people be polite, which is not longer socially enforced by our culture. People that have been raised to respect themselves and others will still do so, and therefore, you can find many of us in the younger generation who are polite. If the parenting and teacher influence in their lives guided them in integrity and etiquette, they will be respectful and trustworthy. If they were raised by televisions and machines and "permissive" parents, they generally won't be anything but self-absorbed.
If you've read this far, hopefully you have a different perspective on your experience.
May others be more trustworthy on your journey and may you be open to finding them.
bel
edited merely to add that I'm 27
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