Mediocre and Corrupt Generation

[RobAnybody]

'The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and
love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants
of the households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the
room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up
dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their
teachers.'

I like how "cross their legs" was a harrumph-worthy issue. Maybe the big fad was skinny-togas.

 

[mayor]

Typical cycle continues. Older generation blames younger generation.

And now for something completely different...

Younger generations blaming older generations?

We're doing that now, or will be doing that in the near future.

 

[Traitorfish]

If it was the young generation which is unique in its materialistic corruption, then I really have to ask: who is making these tv shows? Kindly, church-going philanthropists, I suppose?


Apart from being the same old drivel that out-of-touch farts have been barking since time immemorial, I think that we may be at one of those occasional points in history at which commentary such as this is not merely boring and stupid, but precisely false. The youth of today, I think, significantly more conscientious and less prejudiced than their parents and grandparents; that they are not so disingenuous as to mask their vices with a time-worn costume of respectable citizenship is, if it is anything, a point in their favour. Rather, it is boorish cretins like the charming Ms. Tesch, who can think of nothing better to say about society than these regurgitated Mosleyisms, that express the mediocrity of current society- and all the more so for being entirely blind to their participation in it.

 

[Winner]

Values change.

That said, the values of this generation of teenagers are particularly appalling. But the trend has been there even before them.

 

[Leoreth]

Apart from being the same old drivel that out-of-touch farts have been barking since time immemorial, I think that we may be at one of those occasional points in history at which commentary such as this is not merely boring and stupid, but precisely false. The youth of today, I think, significantly more conscientious and less prejudiced than their parents and grandparents; that they are not so disingenuous as to mask their vices with a time-worn costume of respectable citizenship is, if it is anything, a point in their favour. Rather, it is boorish cretins like the charming Ms. Tesch, who can think of nothing better to say about society than these regurgitated Mosleyisms, that express the mediocrity of current society- and all the more so for being entirely blind to their participation in it.

Nothing more to say

 

[azzaman333]

I really don't want to know what sort of person writes that tripe.

 

[Leonel]

I'll counter that well thought argument with this well thought out argument: Who created MTV? BABY BOOMERS

They took all the good air, all the good drugs, all the good music, all the good stuff and screwed us all over!

 

[kramerfan86]

I'll counter that well thought argument with this well thought out argument: Who created MTV? BABY BOOMERS

They took all the good air, all the good drugs, all the good music, all the good stuff and screwed us all over!

It was all just clean fun when it was full of sexualized music videos, well except to the generation before them but screw those square farts man

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

'The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and
love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants
of the households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the
room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up
dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their
teachers.'

Those damn plays and dramas are ruining this generation's youth!

 

[JollyRoger]

Those damn plays and dramas are ruining this generation's youth!

Yep, not enough Zeus and too much "reality" in today's entertainment.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

There was a quote somewhere that said this generation is just the end-product of the previous generation.
The oldfarts should just blame themselves for the society they created for this generation.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

Eh. Everyone does this. Our grandparents complained about how our parents were whiny entitled brats, and our grandparents parents did the same, and so on. I think I heard somewhere Andy Griffith used to be considered a controversial show because it showed an unmarried man raising his kid.

 

[Darth Caesar]

Excellent, with the rest of my generation going down the crapper my conquest of the world will be all that easier.

 

[Yeekim]

No criticism concerning reality shows and MTV can be too harsh.

 

[timtofly]

If it was the young generation which is unique in its materialistic corruption, then I really have to ask: who is making these tv shows? Kindly, church-going philanthropists, I suppose?


Apart from being the same old drivel that out-of-touch farts have been barking since time immemorial, I think that we may be at one of those occasional points in history at which commentary such as this is not merely boring and stupid, but precisely false. The youth of today, I think, significantly more conscientious and less prejudiced than their parents and grandparents; that they are not so disingenuous as to mask their vices with a time-worn costume of respectable citizenship is, if it is anything, a point in their favour. Rather, it is boorish cretins like the charming Ms. Tesch, who can think of nothing better to say about society than these regurgitated Mosleyisms, that express the mediocrity of current society- and all the more so for being entirely blind to their participation in it.

Nothing more to say

Would either of you care to convince my daughter of that? It would have been cheaper than taking her to therapy. Her last two classes 4th and 5th were horrible. 80% of the class could care less to even be there, much less endure having to get an education.

 

[Core Imposter]

Just think where we would be if not for technology and cheap illegal hispanic labor.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

If exploitation is what your society requires to be great, then it is not so great after all.

 

[kramerfan86]

If exploitation is what your society requires to be great, then it is not so great after all.

It doesnt, just allows some rich to maximize their profits as opposed to paying a decent wage.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It doesnt, just allows some rich to maximize their profits as opposed to paying a decent wage.

I'm not going to get into it here why such an instance is no less exploitative, but even by your measure the post above mine implied that it is responsible.

 

[kramerfan86]

I'm not going to get into it here why such an instance is no less exploitative, but even by your measure the post above mine implied that it is responsible.

Oh I know what he implied, Im am just disagreeing with his point