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<blockquote data-quote="Conservativation" data-source="post: 56831962" data-attributes="member: 244939"><p>As expected....</p><p></p><p>Actually, not exactly as you say. </p><p></p><p>My age is 48 incidentally and I stated clearly when i was in university, early 80's. </p><p></p><p>I know well considered folks at 22 yrs old. But i can spot someone parroting something they heard somewhere pretty easily. Im sorry, but a 22 year old casually invoking "military industrial complex" is not highly credible. There is n EXPERIENCE reservoir except the echo chamber of academia from which to draw....note i confessed exactly the same issues when i was the same age. </p><p></p><p>Its not an insult, its a fact. We have lost all stratification of respect in the west anyway. Age isnt correlative with intelligence. It CAN be with wisdom. And Im not suggesting anything about ideology, left/right...thats irrelevant. Im simply saying its a bit big for britches to have a college senior or recent grad making comments that a certain set of beliefs on defense are "laughable" . The humor would come from the juxtaposition of the idea being compared, and some experience derived other idea to compare it to....he lacks that experience derived idea, so there can be no "laughable" juxtaposition. </p><p></p><p>I had vim and vinegar at 22 too, and was considered equally impetuous. Im no stranger to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Conservativation, post: 56831962, member: 244939"] As expected.... Actually, not exactly as you say. My age is 48 incidentally and I stated clearly when i was in university, early 80's. I know well considered folks at 22 yrs old. But i can spot someone parroting something they heard somewhere pretty easily. Im sorry, but a 22 year old casually invoking "military industrial complex" is not highly credible. There is n EXPERIENCE reservoir except the echo chamber of academia from which to draw....note i confessed exactly the same issues when i was the same age. Its not an insult, its a fact. We have lost all stratification of respect in the west anyway. Age isnt correlative with intelligence. It CAN be with wisdom. And Im not suggesting anything about ideology, left/right...thats irrelevant. Im simply saying its a bit big for britches to have a college senior or recent grad making comments that a certain set of beliefs on defense are "laughable" . The humor would come from the juxtaposition of the idea being compared, and some experience derived other idea to compare it to....he lacks that experience derived idea, so there can be no "laughable" juxtaposition. I had vim and vinegar at 22 too, and was considered equally impetuous. Im no stranger to it. [/QUOTE]
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