{"id":2257,"date":"2015-06-06T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2015-06-06T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T13:19:37","slug":"the-world-is-going-to-hell-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Going to Hell &#8230;or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MLMG168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2258 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MLMG168.jpg\" alt=\"Editorial Cartoon -- MLive Media Group\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MLMG168.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MLMG168-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2015\/06\/MLMG168.jpg&amp;name=The World Is Going to Hell ...or Not....\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>June 7, 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/06\/auchtoon_college_graduates_adv.html#incart_river\" target=\"_blank\">Also posted online at MLive.com, June 6, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When I graduated from Michigan Tech, the special speaker at the ceremony was an executive from Intel Corporation. He prattled on for his allotted 30 minutes about the current state of the microchip business, how there was once great promise, but now the Japanese competition was eating their lunch. (This to a group of young engineers predominantly from southeast Michigan who were intimately familiar with Japanese competition eating lunches.) There was nothing inspiring about it. The take-away message for me as a graduate was \u201cthe world used to be better, but now it pretty much sucks \u2014 alas for you.\u201d Worst. Commencement. Address. Ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Maybe that\u2019s why it\u2019s a pet peeve of mine when some (generally older) person goes off on an \u201ceverything is going to hell\u201d rant. First, it\u2019s not helpful. Second, it\u2019s not true. Yes, there may be some things today that are undeniably worse (quality of journalism). But you can\u2019t just cherry pick because some things that are undeniably better (beer choices).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mostly I believe it to be a case of the world evolving and having to deal with new variations of the same human challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So give the youth a break. Try to share perspective, not opinion. (As it turns out, the mid-80s were a minor low point in the life of Intel, and the company went on to tremendous success.) Because there really is nothing more insufferable than an older person (especially a baby boomer) going on about how their music was so much better than yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News June 7, 2015 Also posted online at MLive.com, June 6, 2015 When I graduated from Michigan Tech, the special speaker at the ceremony was an executive from Intel Corporation. He prattled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}