Thanks for this, genius Kate. I have no words for how much I despise the ignorance f the young who would rather let people suffer and die than actually...you know...hold out a hand to help. By the way, in 1973 my ex-husband's ITV documentary on the fanine Hailie Selassi had concealed shocked the nation, and he was allowed to do an appeal on both ITV and the BBC which raised what was at the time a record amount of money for the Disasters Emergency Committee. By filming in Ethiopia at the request of leftish students who wanted the horror exposed was he being a 'white saviour'? Bah!
Well that was a discusion I did not see coming - Having to explain a 1984 - Having to explain the kind getures of the world during a pretty horrific time for most of Africa & it contiues may I add - I am aghast TBH - Concerned gay by the sea
I was in Ethiopia after the famine , around 1993. It was in a relatively small localised area of the country. Band aid was a sick project, Geldof a prat and Bono a moron. Any one that actually worked with this project in Ethiopia resided in the gated Holiday Inn and shot out into the begging people in their Landcruisers, with windows firmly closed. That being said the present day youth are just indoctrinated without a single original thought in their head, the state owns them and they do the states bidding like good little robots.
The arrogance of youth can be frustrating to say the least. Parents ‘know nothing’ ‘have never lived’ ‘never listen or understand’
Grandmothers though are a whole other ballgame. I am 68 and have 5 aged from 12 to 25. My 23 year old gorgeous granddaughter is staying with us during her Xmas break from her masters. She soaks up the stories from my youth, my teenage years in apartheid South Africa, she was born there 9 years after Mandelas release and is amazed at the level of brutal racism my generation lived through. She loves listening to my music from the 60s through to the 90s. As grandmothers are ‘wise’ who ‘listen’ who ‘understand the hell their ignorant parents put them through. My youngest informed me when about 15 that I had never lived, that I didn’t even know who Limp Bizkit was!’ (I tried to hide my laughter as it would have added insult to injury. She now has a 13 year old daughter, sweet karma!
As someone once said ‘grandchildren are your reward for not killing your kids when they were teenagers’
Hang on in there Kate, if you one day have grandchildren your reward will be ever so sweet ❤️
Thanks for this, genius Kate. I have no words for how much I despise the ignorance f the young who would rather let people suffer and die than actually...you know...hold out a hand to help. By the way, in 1973 my ex-husband's ITV documentary on the fanine Hailie Selassi had concealed shocked the nation, and he was allowed to do an appeal on both ITV and the BBC which raised what was at the time a record amount of money for the Disasters Emergency Committee. By filming in Ethiopia at the request of leftish students who wanted the horror exposed was he being a 'white saviour'? Bah!
Context seems to be alien to these young angry people. Do their degree courses just not bother with it?
Well that was a discusion I did not see coming - Having to explain a 1984 - Having to explain the kind getures of the world during a pretty horrific time for most of Africa & it contiues may I add - I am aghast TBH - Concerned gay by the sea
I was in Ethiopia after the famine , around 1993. It was in a relatively small localised area of the country. Band aid was a sick project, Geldof a prat and Bono a moron. Any one that actually worked with this project in Ethiopia resided in the gated Holiday Inn and shot out into the begging people in their Landcruisers, with windows firmly closed. That being said the present day youth are just indoctrinated without a single original thought in their head, the state owns them and they do the states bidding like good little robots.
Such a well written tale of our times Kate.
The arrogance of youth can be frustrating to say the least. Parents ‘know nothing’ ‘have never lived’ ‘never listen or understand’
Grandmothers though are a whole other ballgame. I am 68 and have 5 aged from 12 to 25. My 23 year old gorgeous granddaughter is staying with us during her Xmas break from her masters. She soaks up the stories from my youth, my teenage years in apartheid South Africa, she was born there 9 years after Mandelas release and is amazed at the level of brutal racism my generation lived through. She loves listening to my music from the 60s through to the 90s. As grandmothers are ‘wise’ who ‘listen’ who ‘understand the hell their ignorant parents put them through. My youngest informed me when about 15 that I had never lived, that I didn’t even know who Limp Bizkit was!’ (I tried to hide my laughter as it would have added insult to injury. She now has a 13 year old daughter, sweet karma!
As someone once said ‘grandchildren are your reward for not killing your kids when they were teenagers’
Hang on in there Kate, if you one day have grandchildren your reward will be ever so sweet ❤️