Letters to the Editor
Rambling Rose 22
Published Letters: 757 Editor's Choice: 6
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As Usual...
[Read the article: Panic in the pages]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the intellectual comic books that you mention seem to have never made it to Ohio back in the 50's and 60's. All kids read comic books back then, and before, because we didn't have as many mediums from which to choose our entertainment: A TV with about 3 channels that went off the air about 11pm depending upon what part of the country you lived, a movie once in awhile but never an adult one, once in awhile a school trip to a symphony concert, and the Ice Capades if you were really lucky.
Comic books are where I learned that Veronica and Betty might be friends, but Veronica would always be more special because she had the money, and Archie could never give his heart to Betty as long as he was dazzled by Veronica's good looks and money. And I don't care what Richie Rich did for his friends, he was not equal to the rest of us and we all secretly wished he was poor and we had his money. Women were to be pretty and men were adventurous and having fun. All the great super hero's were men anyway. So where did that leave a little girl? Oh yeah, sitting there passively watching, needing to be saved, and looking pretty.
I'm not sure that comic books created the generation gap or not. Parents were parents back then;i.e.,the majority of all parents in the majority of neighborhoods seemed to operate with the same code regardless of socio-economic backgrounds. They were the gatekeepers to adulthood, as they should have been then, and should be now.
Today, the lines between parent and child have been erased by crass, corporate greed convincing Americans to consume cheap goods and stay young. Mom dresses like her teenage diva-wanna-be complete with push-up bra and low-slung jean and thong panties, Dad spends way too many hours playing games on Playstation and with his other gadgets and toys in the garage.
Even 13 years olds are having way too much sex for, well, 13 year olds. They had to get the idea that it was okay to freely engage in sex at their age from someplace or someone! And let me tell you that they didn't get it from the Woodstock generation! 13 year olds were not at Woodstock and would not have been welcome there anyway.
The problem with today is there is no generation gap. And if i had to blow your theory out of the water, I would say that music and the politics of the day created the generation gap for the boomer-age kids - not comic books. That, and the fact that the public schools were doing a good job of educating the masses back then. Don't have that worry today, do we?
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And Why Is That?
[Read the article: Seduced by the Dalai Lama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it that not one country in the world recognizes Tibet? Could it be those governments, immersed in their own ambitions of greed and capitalistic crap, decided a long time ago that unless they were drawn into the situation, they would not get involved?
China's government's behavior has been damnable and barbaric toward Tibet. I'm not proud that our government has even so much as registered a blip on the radar screen about it.
But, hey, build a few sky scrappers and implement a socialist form of capitalism and the world can't wait to sell out to you, can it? The United States is a chicken shit version of it's self with wall-to-wall Dollar Stores and it's Wal-Mart economy.
Why should we expect one man to be able to stop an entire country of bilions while the rest of us just sit here and soak up space?