From avocado on toast to the 'Peter Pan Syndrome', Boomers have long been sticking it to the next generation from their negatively-geared safe havens. But their eye-rolling arguments ignore the realty that, for good or ill, we have parented these kids differently.
My friend Kate says that my tendency to over-confess — a continuing readiness to declare any transgressions, missteps or regrets to people in my life — is the last unsorted trace of my Catholic upbringing and is really no longer required.
I'm intrigued by the long day-time hours that the small bundles of vulnerable fluff spend unattended and unprotected at the top of this building, with all manner of predators and competing falcons in the sky above. They are so helpless and so alone. They bundle together while their mum is off — hunting? Day-drinking with the girls? — one of them ambling to the ledge every now and again, seemingly to chance the strength of their soft down against the realities of gravity.
I can see not only the logic but the raw instinct at play here: some chicks will fall, some will be underfed and will perish, some will be taken by other predators — that's just the way it goes. The babies sit up high enough for a helicopter mum, but those rules just don't apply here. It really bothers me, what Hayward and many others before him are trying to argue. Because not only are we leaving this generation more of an ecological, economic, social and geo-political shitstorm than any other time in our remembered history, but we also pompously reserve our right to mock and scorn younger Australians for feeling just a little anxious about the winds they will reap.
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