and by that you mean sold out. well, maybe that's a bit harsh. but, i do find it a bit hypocritical for those that embraced homelessness, drug use, and "freedom" decades ago to now be calling for harsher crackdown on loitering and homelessness in their neighborhood.
now, i don't think that just because you live in a neighborhood you have to put up with grime and crime, endless panhandling and such. but, i'm sure if you heard your dad making this quote, Arthur Evans, you would have called him a fascist or something to that effect. "I used to be a hippie. I wore beads and grew my hair long," he said. "But my generation had something these kids do not: a standard of civilized behavior."
so, when you wore beads, grew your hair long, tuned in, turned on and dropped out, you were civilized about your squatting and drug use? well, good for you. i highly doubt this was actually the case. but, in the case that you always paid rent in haight ashbury during the late 60's, and didn't do anything illegal (like smoke weed) then know that you may have been the only one.
reminds me of another story about the generation gap. always good to see the youth being embraced with open arms.
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I like the old man in the second article, the one who watches from his second floor window.
"Residents like Jeffries say they want the gays of the hip-hop generation to take their rowdiness elsewhere. They have demanded stricter curfews at the pier. They have lobbied to close a train stop on weekends to make it more difficult for people from New Jersey to travel to the West Village, and to ban loitering in their neighborhood. They have suggested that park patrol officers — who police the pier — carry guns."
Who then says:
"There's no willingness to interact," Jeffries said, "or to really treat us with the respect we deserve."
Oh, I see. Crazy old people.
yeah. they don't try to get to know us. but we don't try and get to know them then.
Hey, I try to understand the younger generation. I just bought the new Maroon 5 album.
Please, only old people listen to Maroon 5.
I got Plain White T's. Is that music the kids listen to these days?
Nice burn E. Yeah old people like to talk about how they used to be rebels but they have no appreciation for the new rebels. Of course the "new" kids are going to push "new" buttons that's because your "old" ass already pushed the "old" ones. Just face it at age 40 your testosterone levels dropped and you got old and grumpy. Young people today aren't that different from you when you were young and you aren't that different from the "old" people you disdained in your day.
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