By Jim Selman |
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"The
worldviews of our two generations are both equally valid. They are
simply our assessments of ‘the way it is’ and what is and is not
possible. Neither of our assessments are ‘the truth’. And neither are
‘false’. Understanding this doesn’t make understanding each other’s perspective any easier.[
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By Jim Selman |
Bio
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?”[
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