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Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 20 2015, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-old-do-you-feel dept.

martyb writes:

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.

The Beloit College Mindset List, which this year is as old as the entering students themselves, is created by Ron Nief, Emeritus Director of Public Affairs; Tom McBride, Emeritus Professor of English; and Charles Westerberg. Additional items on the list as well as commentaries and guides are found
here and at www.themindsetlist.com Regular updates and discussions are on Facebook and Twitter.

See the Mindset List for the Class of 2019

Previous lists are available online dating back to the Class of 2002.

Among the 50 entries I found it interesting that, from their perspective, there's always been Google, South Park, and mass-produced hybrid vehicles. What is/are your favorite(s) and why? What did they leave out?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @12:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @12:35AM (#225628)

    The very height of the Cold War was not the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Humankind is very lucky that "The other guy blinked" in 1962.
    The young, cocky, inexperienced US President kept playing Chicken with the USSR, a nuclear-armed nation capable of destroying the planet's ecosystem. [wikipedia.org]

    If it wasn't for the older, wiser, more mature Nikita Khrushchev realizing the magnitude of the situation and showing extreme levelheadedness, life on Earth would have been exterminated.

    Even that doddering old fool, Reagan, didn't put the Earth in such peril as the naive[1] Kennedy had.

    [1] Remember the Bay of Pigs fiasco the previous year?

    Every time there has been an example of a guy who averted Armageddon, whether it was not launching a nuclear torpedo at the USA fleet [wikipedia.org] which was dumping depth charges on his submarine off Cuba
    ...or the 1985 case of "The Man Who Saved the World" by ignoring an early-warning SNAFU [wikipedia.org] instead of telling Soviet ICBM Command to launch everything they had onto the USA, that guy has been Soviet.

    ...then there's Barack "No Nukes" Obama who wants to piss away $1T on an upgraded USA nuke arsenal. [hngn.com]

    the Nobel [Peace] Laureate, who has bombed seven countries since taking office, has seemingly reversed himself on another campaign promise

    -- gewg_

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:03AM (#225762)

    Well, what exactly did he say? Did he say "I want a world without nukes"? Or did he rather say "I want to get rid of the nukes"? Because the latter could well be interpreted as "I want to get rid of the nukes, to make place for better ones."