01-15-2017, 08:19 AM
I didn't fully realize, until I started riding, just how expensive it is to own and ride a motorcycle...even though I started on a 250cc bike. You can't just look at the cost of the bike. The riding gear is a major investment, as is the maintenance that ferret documents.
The younger generation doesn't look at vehicles the way their predecessors did...as coveted escape machines. Escape from Mom and Dad, escape from school, escape from the boredom of wherever you are by going somewhere else. Young people today do their escaping and traveling online, virtually. They don't get bored, because they have an infinite ocean of interest and entertainment literally at their fingertips.
For older generations, cars and motorcycles represented freedom. The kind of vehicle we owned said something about our outlook on life and how we viewed ourselves. Young people just don't look to transportation as something that defines them.
I'm starting to interact with a lot of young people in the workplace. It's hard to get used to their flat affect, lack of eye contact, lack of apparent interest in anything, lack of joyous life-energy. When my friends and I were that age, we were like exuberant puppies! We were always ready to romp and play. I think for many of these young people, real life is somehow gray and drab to them. They'd rather live in their virtual online life.
Not all of them are like this of course. But enough of them act like lobotomized digital zombies that it's worrisome.
The younger generation doesn't look at vehicles the way their predecessors did...as coveted escape machines. Escape from Mom and Dad, escape from school, escape from the boredom of wherever you are by going somewhere else. Young people today do their escaping and traveling online, virtually. They don't get bored, because they have an infinite ocean of interest and entertainment literally at their fingertips.
For older generations, cars and motorcycles represented freedom. The kind of vehicle we owned said something about our outlook on life and how we viewed ourselves. Young people just don't look to transportation as something that defines them.
I'm starting to interact with a lot of young people in the workplace. It's hard to get used to their flat affect, lack of eye contact, lack of apparent interest in anything, lack of joyous life-energy. When my friends and I were that age, we were like exuberant puppies! We were always ready to romp and play. I think for many of these young people, real life is somehow gray and drab to them. They'd rather live in their virtual online life.
Not all of them are like this of course. But enough of them act like lobotomized digital zombies that it's worrisome.