11-14-2016, 02:35 AM
(11-14-2016, 01:24 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-14-2016, 12:25 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-14-2016, 12:18 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Agreed.
Hey, you're talking to me as if I wasn't an evil boomer!
That is because you are not being an idiot or condescending the way most Boomers are. You must be one of the exceptions to the rule that I encounter occasionally. My attitude toward Eric the Obtuse and some others is a product of me not suffering fools gladly.
Plenty of people of all generations are idiots, though boomers may be more insistent about any idiotic positions they hold.
Condescension, yes, though GIs also tended to be condescending. Specifically, GIs tended to be condescending when taking positions that they knew - or perhaps "knew" - to be true, but when they didn't know the reasons why those positions were true. Boomers may be condescending even when they do know the reasoning, but just can't be bothered to discuss it.
The GIs on the other hand were generally very competent and so I have fewer problems with their condescension. When they were wrong is was rare and very spectacular. In the end GIs tended respond to reality. I rather liked them in spite of these flaws because of their basic sanity.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises