john eden
male pale and stale
They fuck you up, etc.
WARNING: Grotesque generalisations follow.
THE CASE AGAINST
1) When I was gestating in the late 60s, they were all off having free love and great drugs. The economy was bloody great, they had the welfare state on tap.
2) When I was entering my teens in the mid 80s, they'd all settled down and didn't have to worry about AIDs like I did. Instead they all bought their own council houses and got shares in public utilities courtesy of Thatcher.
3) Now I am settling down, they are all retiring early courtesy of big fat pensions. I am faced with spiraling house prices, virtually no council housing and all public services destroyed completely or being carved up by PFI. Everyone my age is working harder and longer, which is taking a toll on our mental health.
4) When they are dead I will still be working. Indeed the way things are currently going I shall have to work until I am about 90 before I can retire.
THE CASE AGAINST ME
Ok, so I didn't lose either of my parents in WWII or get evacuated. And I have lived through this country slowly evolving away from the "stiff upper lip" and other hideous morality judgements. Plus, what follows for the next generation will probably be worse.
TOMORROW'S OUTLOOK: BLEAK
WARNING: Grotesque generalisations follow.
THE CASE AGAINST
1) When I was gestating in the late 60s, they were all off having free love and great drugs. The economy was bloody great, they had the welfare state on tap.
2) When I was entering my teens in the mid 80s, they'd all settled down and didn't have to worry about AIDs like I did. Instead they all bought their own council houses and got shares in public utilities courtesy of Thatcher.
3) Now I am settling down, they are all retiring early courtesy of big fat pensions. I am faced with spiraling house prices, virtually no council housing and all public services destroyed completely or being carved up by PFI. Everyone my age is working harder and longer, which is taking a toll on our mental health.
4) When they are dead I will still be working. Indeed the way things are currently going I shall have to work until I am about 90 before I can retire.
THE CASE AGAINST ME
Ok, so I didn't lose either of my parents in WWII or get evacuated. And I have lived through this country slowly evolving away from the "stiff upper lip" and other hideous morality judgements. Plus, what follows for the next generation will probably be worse.
TOMORROW'S OUTLOOK: BLEAK