tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post6928572469917339503..comments2024-01-01T08:18:36.278-05:00Comments on Real Physics: The Gimme GenerationLawrence Gagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-74781816288721945112011-10-03T14:41:38.312-04:002011-10-03T14:41:38.312-04:00You will struggle in vain to find the word "a...You will struggle in vain to find the word "all" applied to any group here. Generalization is not mathematical proof.<br /><br />Of course, there are redeeming members of the boomer generation. Generally they are the ones most ready to admit their generation is problematic (e.g., Professor Janet Smith).<br /><br />But your assertion of continuity in those particular professions is not unquestionable. Medical doctors no longer follow the oath of Hippocrates, and the military flaunts sexual deviancy. The sciences chug on (led by practical profit), but fundamental physics has been in a holding pattern for the past few decades (cf. Smolin's <i>The Trouble with Physics</i>).<br /><br />Mentors would have to be manifest wantons for their proteges to find nothing to admire. Like children, they assume their elders are their betters. Many a drug lord's son admires his father.<br /><br />LGLawrence Gagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-85510866220462858052011-10-03T05:00:57.610-04:002011-10-03T05:00:57.610-04:00"Anyway, the baby boomers did not seem to inh..."Anyway, the baby boomers did not seem to inherit any greatness from their parents."<br /><br />This is painting a whole generation with a broad brush. If they had all been as irresponsible as you say there would have been no continuity in the medical profession, the military, or the sciences. Many younger people who work in these areas have had boomer mentors whom they have admired. Ask them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-20474427048774883722008-10-10T03:31:00.000-04:002008-10-10T03:31:00.000-04:00I can't say anything against "The Greatest Generat...I can't say anything against "The Greatest Generation" because I do think they lived through extremely difficult days with dignity, but the legacy of their trauma was silence.<BR/><BR/>My husband's two grandfathers were in WW2. One was on horseback in the last cavalry and the other was taken prisoner, walked the Bataan Death March, and built a radio out of scraps which was used to free his POW camp. They are heroes to the boys in the family and I won't deny them their due in suffering hardship for the rest of us, but they were very silent men who left painful emotional imprints on their children and spouses. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, the baby boomers did not seem to inherit any greatness from their parents. I completely agree that challenge, and how we respond to them, grow us into more dependence upon God and therefore, into better people.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the psalm too, it can be easy to lose sight of the truth about success.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com