What annoys me more

Boy I tell you whut, I was reading an article in the Fin Revue this morning about the AATE (The Australian Association for the Teaching of English) (Him read word good) . Well there are two things that bugged the shit out of me about the article, firstly the obviously slow moving target of contemporary English Literature education and the second is the obvious reference to those Baby Boomer leeches (things were so much better in my day etc).

With regards to the first, the topic of the article cited the incompetence of young people today in respect to the rules of grammar. The second issue I have is that the writer held me in sympathy until he announced that he was a Baby Boomer and as such is worried about the ability of the youth of today to get a job and sustain his retirement benefits.

So here's what I don't get, the education revolution of the late 1960's and 1970's was the result of Baby Boomers who graduated from university with an aim to implementing neocon/anarcho-feminist readings of English literature. To then in turn blame those who received this education is akin to King Canute bitching about tide charts. The moment you envoke a 'generation' as a badge of recognition is the moment you exclude any serious discussion about the state of education in Australia. It demonstrates a pandering to sterotypes as well as betraying an all too comon character trait of people like this author, avoiding responsibility.

I'm sure this article was written tongue in cheek, it is contradictory to state that the very people you blame for creating a problem a: have no responsibility for fixing it and the b: you people are clueless, skilled deprived and threaten the hand out/welfare culture of the BB Generation.

So I do have to protest the quality of the writting, the point of the exercise and dissapointing limit of the authors grasp of events and causality.

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Here is a supporting LINK to my general rant against Baby Boomers.