RE: [Paddlewise] Cosco Selling Kayaks

At 27 I can say I think my generation of Americans is the most screwed
up ever.

We don't want to lead.  We don't want to follow, and we have a hard
time belonging.  Kayaking is probable growing because we are becoming
a generation of loaners.  We see the world screwed up and not getting
better.  Most of our parents are divorced.  The percentage of people
unmarried people in my generation is greater than it has ever been. 
We saw companies cut employees after many years of loyal service in
the eighties.  We don't trust our own government.  We spend more than
we make.  No one is responsible for his or her own action (financial
or criminal).  We see the legal system as a joke.  People sewing
people stupid things.  Criminal getting a way with murder because the
paper work was not filed properly.  The bill of rights being skewed to
suit the moment. Please read http://jpfo.org/billrights.htm.  I find
10, 1, 2, and 4 interesting in that order.   We think there are just
too many people in the world.  We take more than we give back to
nature (about half of us care).  I don't think my generation could get
together to fight in a war like WW2 or fight against war on like so
many did in the 60s against the War in Vietnam.

There are exceptions.  Remember you are different, just like everyone
else.

I find myself looking for groups of my peers.  Most of my friends have
_at_ in the middle of their names.

The only thing that makes my generation look better is the generation
that is now in collage.

Or maybe I am wrong.  I can except that.

The good new is when I am on the water or in the woods, I don't have
to think about the rest of the world.  Maybe that is why I hike, hunt
and kayak alone





---Chuck Holst <CHUCK_at_multitech.com> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> >>
> It isn't just this mail list that is older.  My paddling club is
> filled with members of comparable age, as is my ski club.
> The youth are left out or have dropped out of all sorts of
> these things.  Sigh...
> 
> Mike
> >>
> 
>
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> It's the same in the Twin Cities. At various times I have been active
> in the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (Minn-Stf), the Minnesota
Canoe
> Association (MCA), and the North Star Ski Touring Club (NSSTC). All
> three organizations started in the mid Sixties, and all three are  
graying,
> though possibly for different reasons (science fiction fans tend not
to
> be physically active). Probably the youngest group in the MCA is the
> Rapids Riders whitewater club, maybe because the thrill of
whitewater is
> more appealing to the young, maybe because whitewater boats are
cheaper
> than sea kayaks.
> 
> I sometimes wonder what it was about the Sixties that caused these
> disparate groups to all start up about the same time. Maybe today's
> generation just isn't as interested in creating or joining
organizations.   
> Or maybe they don't have time enough.
> 
> Chuck Holst
> 
> 
>
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