Mediocre and Corrupt Generation

[Traitorfish]

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.

That, I think, is part of the problem: the frequency with which some people mistake a disinclination among the youth to march unquestioningly to the received drumbeat as indicative of "corruption" and "mediocrity". Which is, aside from anything else, terribly un-American.

 

[Masada]

What's corruption?

 

[RobAnybody]

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.

So true. I remember back in 4th & 5th grade when all the students wanted to be there & couldn't wait to learn. No cutting up, no passing notes, no giggling, just eager minds waiting to listen to the teacher, asking for more homework & volunteering to be called upon. I blame Snooki for this incredible change. Also, those kids who won't get off my lawn.

 

[bernie14]

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.

I am greatly relieved that this generation’s youth will finally not turn into the old farts of the next....

 

[ParkCungHee]

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.

Oh come on, even Mosley would call this bunk.

 

[Ayn Rand]

I don't think it is imagination or an old cultural pattern repeating itself - this generation really is unusually mediocre and corrupt. As in, really.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

How can you be unusually mediocre? Isn't that a contradiction?


This generation seems quite corrupt, but the more I learn about previous generations the more I see that they were all terrible in their own ways. I'd pick the youth of today over the youth of medieval French cities any day.

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Teenagers are for the most part s. That's just what puberty does to your brain.
The problem is that most adults either conveniently forget or just refuse to admit to themselves what they were like at this age.

 

[aelf]

This thread is a good litmus test for imbecility.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Teenagers are for the most part s. That's just what puberty does to your brain.
The problem is that most adults either conveniently forget or just refuse to admit to themselves what they were like at this age.

Basically this, but the conditions of each passing generation could provide new outlets for these impulses, no?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Basically this, but the conditions of each passing generation could provide new outlets for these impulses, no?

Of course.
When I was a child everybody was running around with a Gameboy while wireless phones were unheard of. Now children are running around with smartphones and listening to crappy music with bad quality.
When I was a teen we didn't waste our time with Twitter or Facebook, but only because the internet was still very young and there was no such thing as social media.
When people say 'we didn't do this when we were young' I often sthink 'No, but we probably would have if we could have'.

 

[Leoreth]

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

Interestingly, most myths involving Zeus sound more like common reality show plots than anything else

 

[NBAfan]

Why is materialism wrong, it's all there is isn't it?

 

[kramerfan86]

I don't think it is imagination or an old cultural pattern repeating itself - this generation really is unusually mediocre and corrupt. As in, really.

uh huh, I would like to point out to generation snobs like you that while the younger generation might watch shows like Jersey Shore, the older generations came up with them, funded them, and put them on the television stations that they own. The older generations also exclusively make up the corrupt politicians running numerous nations on the ground.

 

[JollyRoger]

I don't think it is imagination or an old cultural pattern repeating itself - this generation really is unusually mediocre and corrupt. As in, really.

I will concede that there seems to be a bit more Atlas Shuggery worship in the latest batch of youngsters.

 

[Winston Hughes]

To identify any general trend in moral development requires the taking of blunt instruments to a mind-bogglingly complex web of beliefs and actions. The broad view is always of indescribable diversity, the general hidden too well by the particular to admit of sober judgement. Claims which cast a whole generation as better or worse tell us nothing about the moral fibre of the judged, but much about the ideological fixations of those who judge them.

 

[Save_Ferris]

I don't think it is imagination or an old cultural pattern repeating itself - this generation really is unusually mediocre and corrupt. As in, really.

How more so than when you were young?

 

[Tycho]

Well, one thing is that we as a society are more materialistic than in past generations, to say the least.

 

[Winston Hughes]

Well, one thing is that we as a society are more materialistic than in past generations, to say the least.

Which 'we' are you talking about?

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Why is materialism wrong, it's all there is isn't it?

Explain?