You are all a bunch of loonies

[4bonhoffer]

My father’s generation was called the greatest generation. Rightly so, the hell they went through growing up in the great republican depression, followed by combat in WW2. The civil rights movement. So much more to be done but they created a path. Most of us looked at the women and men of that generation with respect, even when we disagreed on policy.

Those who follow my generation are going to look at us and say, YOUR ALL A BUNCH OF LOONIES ! Allowing the planet and democracy to be utterly f’d . You’re all a bunch of loonies !

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. The greatest generation elected Nixon and Reagan

They don’t get off Scot free.

[SocialDemocrat61]

6. They also supported McCarthism

and segregation.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Workers shall inherit the earth

Billionaires don't know how to do anything. They'll be bankrupt and useless. There won't be enough workers to make electricity to run their robots.

Workers will be scarce because birth rates and fecundity are on a steep decline. They will only work for themselves or each other. Agrarian society returns.

Tired of all the top down anyway.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Golgafrincham B Ark, filled with middle management, telephone sanitisers etc.:

FORD:
Well, I can see that you’ve got a lot of things you’re gonna want to talk about, so thanks for the drinks and if you could sort of drop us off and the nearest, convenient planet..?

CAPTAIN:
Ah well, that’s a little difficult you see because our trajectory- thingy, was preset before we left Golgafrincham.

FORD:
When are you gonna reach the planet you’re meant to be colonising?

CAPTAIN:
Oh, well we nearly there!… I think… yes. Any second now. Well it’s probably time I got out of the bath in fact. Ha ha. Oh… I don’t know though… why stop just when you’re enjoying it, you know I always say…

ARTHUR:
So we’re actually going to land in a minute?

CAPTAIN:
Well not, not, not so much land in fact, I think as far as I can remember we’re programmed to, er crash on it.

ARTHUR and FORD:
”Crash”?

CAPTAIN:
Yes. It’s all part of the plan. … I think. There was terribly good reason for it which I can’t… quite… remember at the moment.

FORD:
[Yells in exasperation] You’re a load of useless, bloody loonies!!

CAPTAIN:
Ah, yes, that was it, that was reason it was. Ha. Pass me the loofah will you?

https://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio6.htm

[4bonhoffer]

5. 😁👍

Spot on . 👍

[orthoclad]

4. Huh?

You mean the generation that filled the streets with millions against Nam and for civil rights? Against capitalism and for equality? That started the environmental movement? The ones who never spent their lives staring at little screens while driving their SUVs?

Granted, we were the first to have tv from birth. At least in the First World.