No Regrets, Let’s Clean Up the Mess Together |
Monday Jun 15 2009
The Wall Street Journal last week had an article on the new theme of the annual commencement speech celebrity sweepstakes: “We are really, really sorry”. On campus after campus, speakers of the Boomer generation were apologizing to the twenty-something generation (I don’t remember the nomenclature for this batch of graduates) for the self-centered and often greedy abuses of the ‘me’ generation. This old theme had the ring of a “mea culpa” without showing much of an agenda for doing much about anything—coming across more like a challenge to the young to not make our mistakes. Some of the youthful attendees rightfully asked, “Why don’t you clean up the mess you made?”[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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