Re: Down with the government

On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, John Williams <[email protected]>  
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Julia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "The old people" don't equate to "the old culture".  There's a  
>> fairly large
>> intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or  
>> improper) of the
>> other.
>
> I understand that, but as you say, "there's a fairly large
> intersection of the two".
> I agree, which is why I posed my question. I don't think the fact that
> there is not a perfect correspondence of "old culture" with "old
> people" answers my question.

It's not an absolute correlation.

I fit many people's profile of "old people".  Maybe only by a few  
years, but I'm definitely at least partially stuck in that cubbyhole.

But I'm pretty far out on the bleeding edge of "new culture", at least  
in the sense of this current cultural conflict, and plan to stay there  
as long as possible.  And I know people far more into the age range of  
what's culturally considered "old people" who are at least as many  
sigmas out from the mean in my direction as I am, if not more.   
Granted, my corner of the Venn diagram is a lonely one, but it's not  
completely uninhabited ..

"Almost nothing that trickles down is fit to consume." -- Davidson Loehr