[lbo-talk] kids today

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Mar 7 08:32:05 PST 2009


shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> > <http://gawker.com/5165556/college-radicalism-replaced-by-tucker-max>
> >
> > KIDS THESE DAYS
> > College Radicalism Replaced by Tucker Max
>
> they are busy planting gardens as a form of revolutionary liberation and
> solidarity with migrant workers! ha ha.
>
> this was written in comments to a post recently and it strikes me as
> something someone could easily have written in the supposedly radical 60s.
> He can't imagine anything more radical than retreating to your kitchen and
> backyard or community garden

Indeed.

I don't think I have ever seen an article beginning "Kids today" or for that matter, "X today," that wasn't written by someone with his/her head up his/her ass.

Carrol



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