Scientists are unfolding the meaning of life; we’ve got quantum physics and relative math at our fingertips and my generation’s main interest is vajazzling.

In the realm of the cerebral, meaningful conversations trancend IQ. They are available to us all. They only require an open mind and an honest tongue.

Today we don’t have to tolerate small talk. Today we can say what is important. We can learn to abstain from flapping our lips just to know we’re still here.

Save your words; they are what bring us up to the level of the spirit.

And when you speak, let your heart scream!

So when I look at more recent generations and I will speak in terms of my friends and their kids here as I don’t have any, I think that maybe a conscious decision (mostly conscious) has been made by our generation not to bring up their kids with such strictness, control and boundaries. Maybe a pendulum swing a little too far in terms of looking for a balance.

These are just maybes……was thinking about it last night!

I tell you one thing though, from a comment made above and a theme of re enrolling to vote, if I was 18 now (and I am passionate about my politics and always have been) I wouldn’t be in a great rush to enrol. Look at the main alternatives given that we are still ruled by a Westminister bi-partisan political system that has turned to more media crazy presidential style politiking………either Julia or Tony. Well Tony speaks for himself, speaks from teh heart but so did Mark Latham and we saw how that tuned out, he’s an ultra conservative religious zealot who would like to take Australia back to the Menzies era. That’s why little Johnny loved him so much and din’t want Costello as the next leader….more of a moderate. Then there’s Julia…..I love her for being unmarried, no children, A WOMAN, even her voice but she’s a politician with little ticker at the end of the day. She proceeded to embroil herself in a fight to the right in terms of refugees and can’t and won’t make a bold stand on climate change.
So I can sort of understand a reluctance to take any interest in the invertebrate politicians that we are subjected to on TV each night.

Back to subject….I think deep talking is a great thing and I love it and miss it sometimes, I have little time for small talk and can be viewed as dismissive and aloof at times. Oh well………

Surface interaction is like subsisting on instant soup. Why do that when you can have the real thing?

But then, I am also a paid-up Gen X-er.

Interestingly, many of the deep chats I get involved in are spurred by things I or the other person have read on the internet – on reflection, we do tend to ‘slice deep’ in our internet consumption too (i.e. read on a few topics that interest us), rather than go the many-but-shallow route…

I’d tend to agree with @Laura that ‘like-minded thinkers have more avenues to connect with each other’ online. Still, we can all spread the seeds of Deep.