Monday, Monday

OK, I have been thinking about the so-called Boomer generation and I have to find a problem with their evaluation of it being from 1945 through 1965.

People born from 45 to 55  and were elementary school kids in the 50s... high school in the 60s are not the same people as those  born in the later 50s and who were teens in the 70s which was really the drug/free love hippy time.

And certainly those born in 1965 are very different again.   They simply made the "boomer' generation far too big. The 60s were a time when boys still wore crew cuts and skirts were knee length.  You still had to wear dresses and skirts to school and boys were in dressy/casual pants and button down shirts.

Jeans and tee shirts were 70s era.

I am also not a fan of dividing up generations but labeling seems to be a fixed habit today.   Everyone carries labels.  It is divisive.  

Older people complain about kids.. they can't read cursive.  Well, you older ones can't read hieroglyphics either and you most likely can't understand Old English.
Can you read this excerpt from Beowulf in old English?  What's the problem, are you stupid?  No, of course not.

Things change.  Language chanbes, writing changes too.

Education has dumbed down in many cases.   We had to learn Beowulf in school. I doubt they do today but still the kids who can program your phone for you and help you with your computer are not stupid in any way.  They may lack education but this is the result of the government interfenence. 

 Read Charlotte Eiserbeat on that! 

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (1930–2022) was a former Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan (1980–1982) and a critic of the American public school system

Her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronilogical Papertrail.

A dumb population is easier to control and to fool.

Anyway, just a few random thoughts that entered my head on a Monday.