Huh. This is a really interesting article (thanks for telling me to go back and read it, btw).
Although I've got to ask: was there any modern generation that really felt like the previous one wasn't slighly better off than the current state of affairs? This bizzare nostalgia that she creates, especially with the whole teenager thing, works on one level to make me really uncomfortable (what if it's true? What if she's right? What if the 'trolley' is broken), and on another to make me question her perspective - because it seems to me that it's a distinctly modern problem to feel like we're hurtling into the abyss.
But her thing at the end, where she puts the responsibility squarely on the elites to stop hoarding and start actually making things better... I definitely agree with that.
Did it bother you at all that she called it A Seperate Peice though? Because I really really loved "A Seperate Peace" and kept hearing that in my head, and that is *alltogether* a different concept.
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Date: 2005-10-29 06:54 am (UTC)From:Although I've got to ask: was there any modern generation that really felt like the previous one wasn't slighly better off than the current state of affairs? This bizzare nostalgia that she creates, especially with the whole teenager thing, works on one level to make me really uncomfortable (what if it's true? What if she's right? What if the 'trolley' is broken), and on another to make me question her perspective - because it seems to me that it's a distinctly modern problem to feel like we're hurtling into the abyss.
But her thing at the end, where she puts the responsibility squarely on the elites to stop hoarding and start actually making things better... I definitely agree with that.
Did it bother you at all that she called it A Seperate Peice though? Because I really really loved "A Seperate Peace" and kept hearing that in my head, and that is *alltogether* a different concept.