This TRUST thing!

I recently had the “joy” of sitting between two men on an early flight to Johannesburg. In the middle seat you feel quite challenged as to what you can and can’t do. There was no way I could disturb the BIG guy on my left to move so that I could get my briefcase down and do some work. So my options were: put my head on his nice fat arm and catch some zzzzs or read the latest airline magazine.

I opted for the latter. A recent interview with Baby Boomer, Bruce Willis, caught my attention. I found his response to one question on trust very interesting: ” I trust everyone – until they break that trust”. Now I relate to that! So, Im wondering if trust is a boomer value or not. How do Xers view trust with regards to people – it is such an integral part of relationships. Is it a generational value or a characteristic. The phrase “trust me, I’m a gynaecologist” – I’m sure was coined by a boomer. So, how,where, when and why do you Xers trust? Do you DO a Bruce Willis and Glenda Warrin or not??

Posted by: Glenda

THE “BABY BOOMER” DISASTER – By Robert Holmes

A fellow-boomer recently emailed this article to me the Title alone caught my attention and so did the content!

A GENERATION WHICH STRAYED FROM GOD

During the past thirty years Christianity has been in serious decline. The so-called ‘flower power’ generation (the Baby Boomers) began to run after eastern religions, search for god in nature and experiment with mind-bending drugs. They shall be renowned as the generation which threw away sexual restraint, cast off definitions of fixed moral boundaries, rebelled against authorities- church and state, and proclaimed a breed of morality which is almost exclusively self-centred.

The catch cry of the 60’s became ‘if it feels good, do it!’. It is interesting tonote some of the sociological changes which has come about as a result of this explicit cultural inheritance today’s social leaders embraced. Australia has seen a marked increase in substance abuse, legalisation of many forms of drugs, promotion of homosexual ‘equality’, euthanasia made legal in one territory, one of the highest rates of youth suicide in the world and more violent deaths from gun shots each year than Australians who were killed in the Vietnam war. Likewise we have seen rampant abuses of power among senior management in both corporate business and in government departments, especially the police. Divorce rates, child abuse, pornography, and childcare attendance are increasing, and surprise, surprise: church attendance is in decline!

Posted by: Glenda
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