I Apologize
“I’m a member of the 1960s generation. We didn’t have any
wisdom.
“We were the moron generation. We were the generation that
believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long
and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change
everything—which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in
free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for
the sex.
“My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always
been the special prerogative of young people to look and act
weird
and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth’s
resources of the weird. Weird clothes—we wore them. Weird
beards—we grew them. Weird words and phrases—we said them.
So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act
weird,
all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your
tongues.
Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize.”
P. J. O’Rourke, News and Views, May 6, 2008
