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Dear
Sir/Madam,
I found myself
strongly
identifying -
initially, at
least - with
Tom Utley and
what he wrote
in today's
Telegraph, "Pensions
don't worry me
or Mr Blair",
since I too
belong to the
"blessed
generation" of
post-war
Englishmen
(West
Europeans,
North
Americans
etc).
Even more than
Mr Utley, I
realise that
besides
belonging to
the first
generation of
the privileged
masses (in
contrast to
the privileged
few that there
have always
been) - the
way things are
going at the
moment, not
just in this
country, but
globally - it
will also be
the last,
which in a
way, from our
own selfish
point of
view, makes us
doubly
blessed.
From a more
objective
point of view,
however, in
the not so
distant
future, we
will be the
"cursed
generation".
Not that it
need bother
us, of course,
since we will
be dead and
gone. It will
be our own
children and
descendents
who will curse
us - for
plundering and
spoiling the
wonderful
planet that we
inherited and
(if there were
any justice)
should pass on
in as good a
condition as
we received
it.
Your former
proprietor,
Lord Black, it
seems, is a
prime example
of what a
criminally
irresponsible
generation we
are ("Conrad
Black faces
eight counts
of fraud"),
not
withstanding
that most of
the plundering
and spoiling
is done within
the law.
If we had an
ounce of
decency left
in us, we
would take a
rope and hang
ourselves -
or,
alternatively,
radically
change our
ways.
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