Categories: general-nonsense
Tags: General Nonsense
Date: 09 September 2009 06:36:31
Post-modern theory may contain alot of b*****s but it is necessary, the reason being that society has changed hugely over the last couple of decades. I start any Sociology course by mapping out the theories and putting them in their historical context, so on Monday evening I came out with my usual line of "when I was young, which wasn't too long ago, there were only 3 tv channels and now think how many we have".
During a lecture yesterday morning relating to the historical context the Emerging Church has come about in John Drane took a similar approach. He signposted us to this wonderful site on the Sociology of Aging which sums up how much life has changed in the lifetime our our parents and grandparent, (i.e. the last 60 - 80 years).
It has this anonymously sourced reflection:
Born Before 1945
We were born before television, penicillin, frozen foods, xerox, plastic, contact lenses, Frisbees and the PILL.
We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, laser beams, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry-clothes --- and before we walked on the moon.
In our time closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of."
Bunnies were small rabbits and beetles were not little VWs. Designer Jeans were scheming girls and having a meaningful relationship was getting on with our friends.
We got married first and then lived together.
We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent and outer space was the back of the Riviera theater.
We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and commuter marriages.
We were before day care and group therapy.
In 1940, "making out" referred to how you did on your exam.
We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, word processors and guys wearing earrings.
A chip meant a piece of wood and the word software had not been invented.
In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, GRASS was mowed, COKE was a cold drink and POT was a cooking utensil.
ROCK MUSIC was a grandma's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the principal's office.
We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered but we were surely before the sex change.
We made do with what we had.
And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.
No wonder we are so confused and there is a generation gap.
BUT,...WE SURVIVED!
WHAT A REASON TO
CELEBRATE!
(found on http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~deppen/born45.htm, by unknown author)