I had not seen my son Jake for a while, i really miss him so was surprised to get a call to meet up this afternoon for tea in Babylon. We had a conversation that went something like this.
'The olson twins are staying down the road.'
'Errr who are they?' I ask all outta touch with the trends.
'They are the youngest millionares in the world, each worth 345 million dollars.'
'Oh yeah how'd they get so rich?'
'Child stars.'
'Jesus, i never even heard of them.'
'Yeah well I am going to marry one of them.'
'Yeah, well i guess your life will be hell married to an Olsen twin.'
'Yeah but they are so rich it don't matter.'
'Okay well you marry one, i'll marry the other.'
'I thought you said it would be hell.'
'Yes well i had plenty of practise being married to your mum, an Olsen twin would be a walk in the park.'
So i don't really know how you respond to that kind of comment, here's me saying, go to europe, backpack the planet, go get lost in the world, see the polar caps before they melt, have sex with an eskimo, fall in love in Paris, hitch the amalfi coast, watch the sunset in Zanzibar, when all he wants to do is party in sydney. Anyway at 18 the worlds your oyster I guess, i can only support his ideas, dreams and ambitions, who am i to tell him time is running out, islam is rising, the christian mobilizing, the ecology about to bite back.
We wandered through a bookshop and i saw that there is a generation they called the Y generation, they are Jakes age, which if these marketing people and social engineer types are correct, means that after Y is the Z gen. Then I guess our numbers (or letters) up.
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A sixteen year study of 600 American college students found that economic concerns have risen dramatically in importance among yourng people considering marriage. The older generation were taught to focus themselves on goals that had nothing to do with money (good grades, trophies, manners). Thus nurtured and thus rewarded, their behavior led them into a grownup situation where money naturally graviated toward them. The younger generation suspect that adults have rendered such goals far less relevant than they used to be in order to attain ultimate success in life. The new fast paced, materialistic generation of information overloaded mall rats, is contemplating how they can get to riches without embarking on the long and seemingly endless roads of self-denying hurdles that don't seem to lead anywhere. They are not focused on building a strong personality or aquiring patience and wisdom through humanitarian purposes over time, they are focused on how fast and how easily they can make the most money and that spells SUCCESS. Anyone up for a game of Monopoly?
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