Designs by Devin

I was reading Boing Boing and ran across this: lot's of things that the high school class of 2011 has never experienced and thus I feel old. The class of 2011 never saw a Berlin Wall (unless they visited a piece of it in Rosslyn, VA or Kentuck Knob in Pennsylvania. South Africa has never suffered from Apartheid. And the Soviet Union is about as relevant as Richard Nixon. "Eastern Airlines never 'earned their wings' in their lifetime". Finally, U2 is a band to them, not a plane.

Upon reading the list, I realized they've had a pretty peaceful life. Really. They've never felt the heat of Cold War. "No Nukes!" really isn't a concept they understand and 99 Luftballons is just a cute video on VH1 Retro.

Looking at it objectively is hard. A child of the 70's and 80's: I'm a Gen-Xer. We came into the world cynical. Gen-Y came into the world thinking they could conquer anything. I hope they can.

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