Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by eesmith on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:27PM
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The 'kids' of the late 1960s included many college students and enlisted men who were against US involvement in Vietnam.
They were ridiculed for not knowing any better, for being 'young and naturally earnest', etc., though the exact phrasing used was different.
And yet, they were right. It was their elders who didn't know better.
Since it seems you are using an argument which is structurally similar to the ones used against the kids of the 1960s, it doesn't seem like it should put much trust in it.
“I was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter, and he was making me very angry. It seemed to me his questions were implying that we were being directed behind the scenes by Communists or some other sinister group. I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.”
They were ridiculed for not knowing any better, for being 'young and naturally earnest', etc., though the exact phrasing used was different.
And yet, they were right. It was their elders who didn't know better.
Since it seems you are using an argument which is structurally similar to the ones used against the kids of the 1960s, it doesn't seem like it should put much trust in it.
Here's a famous snarky comment from a then 24-year old: "Don't trust anyone over 30" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don't_trust_a...
“I was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter, and he was making me very angry. It seemed to me his questions were implying that we were being directed behind the scenes by Communists or some other sinister group. I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.”