From jeans to BMW

On the pushbuttons is the jeans generation. Is preparing BMW generation!

The world I was born in, I grown and was raised in and become mature is dead now, buried and rotten. A world of darkness and cold, full of artificial  imposed values, a world where daily feeding use to be a problem, a world where you where forced to march for praising a false idol. That is true. But, there use to be a world of a hard to describe enthusiasm. A world where, being a high-school student and then a soldier enlisted in the RSR army, I felt a human solidarity which, at that time, I did not know how to appreciate it properly. It use to be then, "in Ceausescu's times" a spiritual effervescence that I only now can begin to understand, when I got nothing to compare it to with. I met Nichita Stanescu at a literary circle in the highschool I learn.

Today, there are few great personalities of a pure spirituality, among us. Those are lost behind football stars, entertainers-stars, annalists-stars, and singer chicks-stars. They are "recovered" from time to time to a show, which looks to have a deliberate obsolete setting. Anyway, with some luck, they are supported by transition cardboard billionaire, that use to know and appreciate them to their real value, sometime ago.

Nowadays, my 40-45 years old generation is the "biologically managing generation".

I still feel that, the majority of my schoolmates, reached now in key positions have a strong resistance to a cyber dialogue, a physiological immunity to "humanized" discussions. They would rather meet to talk in a coffeehouse or at home. In a few years this generation, "in jeans and sneakers", will push through for the BMW generation with a 3G mobile phone. It is hard for me to imagine what will be then like. Maybe this maturity world of mine will be buried, as well, under more cables, under more optic fiber networks, under even more sophisticated ways of replacing handshake and embrace. Maybe, us who where about twenty years old, without having a certain social status, that had to learn on the go and with great efforts all the rules of the game, we are to become a great misfit again. But now old people. I'm thinking, who will recover us, now and why would they do it?

By Dragos Moldovan

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