Thus for my years, I've been pretty proud of what my generation, the Baby Boomers, have accomplished and produced. The last thirty or forty years haven't been too shabby in scientific, technological, or medical advances. Bill Gates, Christopher Reeve, Rudolph Giuliani, and Hilary Clinton and their contemporaries have done the "Boomers," and the country, proud.
But there are contradictions everywhere I look, and challenges yet to face. It is far from time to rest on our collective laurels. We must seek ourselves, and with our children and their children to come, for answers to issues like these:
HOW can a country that sets itself up as a shining example of democracy have an outcome to a presidential election decided by a court rather than the people?
HOW can that same country, four years down the road, hardly have made any progress into standardizing and making secure the election process-the very process central to democracy?
HOW can we ethically justify the hope of cloning human beings when unwanted fetuses are being discarded every day and infants and children sometimes abandoned?
WHY do we find more value in taking pictures of Saturn's moon than in striving to reverse the greenhouse effect on this planet?
ARE we really seeking out life on other planets when the value we place on human life is so little that a fifty year old man can freeze to death near a sidewalk in Wayne County, Michigan?
SINCE a capitalistic society shows what it values by putting a high price tag on it, when are we going to show teachers and day care workers and law enforcement their value to us by raising their salaries, even if it means we have to pay less to athletes and celebrities?
WHEN will time, the one commodity that we all share equally, become important enough that we spend more of it on people and less of it on acquiring things?
WHEN will we see that the "war on drugs" is not really the issue-that the reason why people want to escape reality in the first place is the concern to be dealt with?
THAT turning the other cheek isn't the same as turning your back
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