Is anyone else ashamed of this generation?

[Stingray89]

I for one am. It seems like more and more people want to get things handed to them in life and arn't willing to actually work for it. I know that some out their do work hard, but for the most part kids nowdays are lazy and disrespectful. Does anyone else find this to be getting worse?
For the record I'm 20 and believe that it's only going to get worse.

This is not a politcal thread, so don't make it one.

[MIJ-VI]

Aren't there members of your generation (and country) risking life & limb 24/7 in Afghanistan and Iraq?

[blendermassacre]

I hate our generation. Computers are our new "drug culture" we care more about the latest viral video and cell phone gadget and ****** single on pop radio, and can't even name all 50 states. We're dumb.

[Simo98]

Originally Posted by Stingray89

I for one am. It seems like more and more people want to get things handed to them in life and arn't willing to actually work for it. I know that some out their do work hard, but for the most part kids nowdays are lazy and disrespectful. Does anyone else find this to be getting worse?
For the record I'm 20 and believe that it's only going to get worse.

Im 18. I would really say ashamed, but certainly disillusioned.


Then again, one of my highschool teachers once told me that when he was in his early 20's at the end of the 60's he was rather dissapointed and remembered thinking how nothing cool or revolutionary had happened during his teenage years, and that 'people today are not like they used to be', wheras 40 years later we look back and see how it was a massive part of modern history.

[Jefenator]

Meh... AFAIC every generation has had its fair share of punks.

OP, you're too young for the grey/brown cardigan.

[hdracer]

Oh come on. Every generation has good & bad. There are plenty of good kids out there. Mine had hippies. The most worthless class of people to ever walk the earth. The US has been fighting a war with a all volunteer military.

[basstotheface]

Something like 1/4th of Americans can't find the US on a world map.

[blendermassacre]

I like my grey cardigan, thanks.

now to pick up the doublebass...

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by basstotheface

Something like 1/4th of Americans can't find the US on a world map.

Linky?

[kydnav]

I think every generation (when they're young) is dissapointed by their generation.

[blendermassacre]

Originally Posted by hdracer

Oh come on. Every generation has good & bad. There are plenty of good kids out there. Mine had hippies. The most worthless class of people to ever walk the earth. The US has been fighting a war with a all volunteer military.

The Vietnam generation is a perfect example. Yeah there were hippies, but at least someone gave a ****. We're too busy picking out our future $1m houses and $100K cars that we're obviously entitled to, rather than worrying about the future.

[basstotheface]

Originally Posted by MIJ-VI

Linky?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven..._b_150933.html

Keep in mind, haven't read the article, so I don't know its credibility. Heard about this from a friend and thought it was pretty sad to see that all this technology hasn't helped at all.

Also, actual figure is 37%

EDIT: Link isn't accurate, read this, proving me wrong. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...6163223AACdc1S

[blendermassacre]

Originally Posted by MIJ-VI

Linky?

http://geography.about.com/b/2007/08...nt-find-us.htm

not true.

[spade2you]

I've noticed, but the entitlement with a lack of work ethic should correct itself one way or another.

[ADbassman]

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world. We're no different.

I think it's what you make of it. I joined the Navy and have been making out pretty well. I definitely earned what I have.

[Bongolation]

Generations rise to meet the challenges they are given...or not.

There are few challenges in European and American societies, which have done about everything they can to stifle any sort of initiative to be anything but mediocre or incarcerated.

The only challenges kids have now are not to rock the boat, make money and buy and vote the way the media tells them to -- and technological social control is possibly the greatest growth industry there is, worldwide.

Life for kids today is bland and superficial, with the greatest threats being their own self-destructive behavior, to which I think they are driven simply to escape the appalling, lukewarm superficiality and meaninglessness of the lives they are offered by their over-regulated, ant-like societies and their banal pop-media cultures.

I saw a very interesting British documentary some years ago about WWII and the reminiscences of some surviving men and women. Because of the age of the participants, their wartime experiences fell when they were teenagers. The utterly astounding responsibilities these kids routinely had placed on them were in such contrast to the futile purposelessness of modern youth that one could scarcely help feeling that these were entirely different species.

It's not the fault of the kids themselves, it's the logical result of decadent, power-polarized societies.

[hdracer]

Originally Posted by ADbassman

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world. We're no different.

I think it's what you make of it. I joined the Navy and have been making out pretty well. I definitely earned what I have.

Thanks for your service. That is what I did.

[geeza]

Originally Posted by spade2you

I've noticed, but the entitlement with a lack of work ethic should correct itself one way or another.

Hopefully before it's too late.

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by basstotheface

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven..._b_150933.html

Keep in mind, haven't read the article, so I don't know its credibility.

"Editor's note: This post is a satire."

Should be a tip-off right there.

[basstotheface]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

"Editor's note: This post is a satire."

Should be a tip-off right there.

Haha I saw that on the look back after I posted it, did more research and found that blendermassacre is right. But we still can't find any other country.