Our future is not necessarily rosy
(01/22/04 5:00am)
I was puzzled in my first semester of college by a prophetic English professor who said, "Your generation may be the first to have a worse life than the one before it." I generally expect such doomsday prophets to be standing on a street corner accosting bystanders with this sort of preaching. Hearing it from a respectable professor was indeed a reality check. Since the baffling prophecy, every class, newspaper, book, evening news and blog I have experienced have presented a new problem to support the case.