PROPERTY &
doors if the power goes out. Seriously, as we drive to the office
in rush-hour traffic to sit behind a computer for eight hours, we
somehow believe we are smarter than dolphins who spend al
their waking hours surfing, fishing and having sex. There’s a
reason they’re always smiling.
It’s time for the Millennials and the Born-frees to take
action
The Second World War defined our grandparents and, for some
of us, our parents. It was a time of insanity and unbelievable
hardship, but it also, strangely, brought out the best in many
people. We learned to value the needs of the herd – of our
tribes and nations – above our own needs. Not of all humanity,
of course. There was still the dastardly ‘them’ against whom
we focused all that jingoistic, self-sacrificing patriotism and
heroism. It gave what has become known as the Greatest (or in
the USA, the GI) Generation a focus, a purpose and a common
enemy. And, closer to home, the Struggle Generation showed,
again, that people can make immense sacrifices if sufficiently
motivated. Let’s face it – nothing unites humans more than