Age Wars! The Coming Battle Between Young and Old (1986)

The article " Age Wars : The Coming Battle Between Young and Old " is from the January / February , 1986 issue ofThe Futuristmagazine . Though the content is n’t inevitably funny , the bit makes me laugh every time I front at it , thanks to the amazing picture that complement the headline so well .

1986 Jan - Feb Futurist " Age Wars"1986 Jan - Feb Futurist " Age Wars"paleofutureArticle about the " coming struggle between youthful and sure-enough . "

The slice is actually very serious-minded and raises a lot of interesting questions about the paleo - time to come which are relevant today . An excerpt appears below but you’re able to read the integral opus above .

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Americans have always been an exceptionally affirmative hoi polloi – and never more so than now . In the late 1970s , it was fashionable to question whether the nation had at last entered an " era of limits , " but the rallying cry these days is " America is back ! " Inflation is down , employment is up , the military is strong , and vitality is plentiful . This is not the season to peddle infelicitous thoughts about the future of America , much less to call for sacrifice .

Yet today ’s successfulness is being purchased at the eventual expense of today ’s younger citizen and those yet unborn . As a consequence , the early tenner of the next hundred may well bring a war between the generations , as tomorrow ’s older endeavor to compel the young to honor the compounding debt of the present era .

The United States is now using an almost interminable variety of means to distribute riches and opportunity forth from succeeding taxpayer . After more than two decades of declining outgo for public works , the cost of indemnify the nation ’s tumble-down bridges , roads , waterways , and other substructure is conservatively judge at more than $ 1 trillion .

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