Beri, should open this up to her subscribers. They would have a separate contest and not compete with the kids.
We have some pretty good essayist on this BBS. Bari doesn't have to give them money, just recognition.
I would submit my brilliant essay on "Liberals Aren't Liberal" which I posted nearly two years ago. Why Bari didn't commission a brass band and a large ostentatious trophy for my outstanding essay two years ago is beyond me.
Thinking of the Iraq war misadventure, I mentally composed an essay twenty years ago entitled "Conservatives Aren't Conservative" or "Republican's Aren't Conservative". About years ago, I needed to modify it to "Republicans Aren't Conservative and Democrats Aren't Liberal". Today I've come to "Republicans Are Liberal and Democrats Are Reactionary Neo-McCarthyite Neo-Puritanical Neo-Marxists".
agreed! Gen Z'ers again? Is this where the most subscribers and hopeful new subscribers pool from? Are we done with the boomers all together and are, just like in real life, no longer interested in whatever they can bring in? Not in the finding love or essay section AT ALL? I'm betting that most of your original subscribers that made TFP period were well over 50. Sad to see you are becoming as guilty of ageism as the rest of them. Disappointing.
This comment is absurd. I remember around the holidays reading several featured submissions to TFP's Senior Essay Contest for readers over 70 years old.
And if you don't understand the importance of fostering and encouraging free thinking among young people today, you've totally lost the plot. The complete and total failure of older people to do this is the reason for most of America's problems today.
Fostering and encouraging free thinking among ALL people, including the young is absolutely important. Exclusion or simply setting apart an entire population just because they are not in the sought after age range is discrimination, no matter how you slice it. Embarrassment here comes in the form of cheering over a lone senior contest for those over 70. More and more people live well into their 90's nowadays and many of them are sharp as a tack. It may be time to rethink the lines of inclusion . Boomers, the ones between 50 and 70, where do you want to place them in your thinking of setting apart from others? The so-called Silent Generation is over 70. Age discrimination is not something you think about, until you're there yourself. Kind of like of all other ism's of discrimination, I believe. Until it becomes personal, you have no beef in it.
Beri, should open this up to her subscribers. They would have a separate contest and not compete with the kids.
We have some pretty good essayist on this BBS. Bari doesn't have to give them money, just recognition.
I would submit my brilliant essay on "Liberals Aren't Liberal" which I posted nearly two years ago. Why Bari didn't commission a brass band and a large ostentatious trophy for my outstanding essay two years ago is beyond me.
Word.
Thinking of the Iraq war misadventure, I mentally composed an essay twenty years ago entitled "Conservatives Aren't Conservative" or "Republican's Aren't Conservative". About years ago, I needed to modify it to "Republicans Aren't Conservative and Democrats Aren't Liberal". Today I've come to "Republicans Are Liberal and Democrats Are Reactionary Neo-McCarthyite Neo-Puritanical Neo-Marxists".
I get that! Cool.
I think you have hit upon something.
agreed! Gen Z'ers again? Is this where the most subscribers and hopeful new subscribers pool from? Are we done with the boomers all together and are, just like in real life, no longer interested in whatever they can bring in? Not in the finding love or essay section AT ALL? I'm betting that most of your original subscribers that made TFP period were well over 50. Sad to see you are becoming as guilty of ageism as the rest of them. Disappointing.
This comment is absurd. I remember around the holidays reading several featured submissions to TFP's Senior Essay Contest for readers over 70 years old.
And if you don't understand the importance of fostering and encouraging free thinking among young people today, you've totally lost the plot. The complete and total failure of older people to do this is the reason for most of America's problems today.
Fostering and encouraging free thinking among ALL people, including the young is absolutely important. Exclusion or simply setting apart an entire population just because they are not in the sought after age range is discrimination, no matter how you slice it. Embarrassment here comes in the form of cheering over a lone senior contest for those over 70. More and more people live well into their 90's nowadays and many of them are sharp as a tack. It may be time to rethink the lines of inclusion . Boomers, the ones between 50 and 70, where do you want to place them in your thinking of setting apart from others? The so-called Silent Generation is over 70. Age discrimination is not something you think about, until you're there yourself. Kind of like of all other ism's of discrimination, I believe. Until it becomes personal, you have no beef in it.
Spot on.
Hmm, I hadn't thought of it that way. Well said!