Letter: The Older Generation Has Not Completely Failed

Published on: 8 Jul, 2019
Updated on: 8 Jul, 2019

From Dave Middleton

The letter from Brian Creese, Young Campaigners Are Right to Think That Older Generations Have Failed Them is yet another example of a political activist trying to drum up votes from younger people by demonising the older generations.

Oh yes, the older generations have failed the young so terribly, what with all those advances in science, medicine, vaccines, efficient food production, communications technology, the internet, television, radio, music, literature, art, clean drinking water, health and safety legislation in the workplace, child labour laws, some of the strictest environmental legislation in the world.

Plus of course the democracy, diplomacy and military capability that has prevented a major war on the scale of WW2 in Europe, for the past 70-odd years. Oh and not forgetting the highest rate of gainful employment in decades, topped off with access to free education right up to the age of 18.

Yes, we haven’t got everything right, but us oldies haven’t made such a terrible bog of everything.

Responses to Letter: The Older Generation Has Not Completely Failed

Ben Paton Reply

July 8, 2019 at 4:42 pm

Karl Marx had some good ideas. But his simplistic notions of class warfare and ‘scientific’ historical determinism do stand up to critical examination. And centrally planned command economies are a corrupt nightmare. It is rather sad that the Labour Party under Mr Corbyn takes elements of Marxist theory and makes them a tribal ideology. The twist put onto this ideology by its Guildford ‘sect’ seems to be to try to convert class warfare into generational warfare. Before it was “the Bourgeois are the enemy of the working class”. Now it seems that according to Mr Crease the old are the enemies of the young.

As if there weren’t enough real problems to solve.