Posted on 09/13/2015 9:16:11 AM PDT by mylife
The problem with young people today is that they think they know everything.
When I was a lad, young people were ignorant – and we were smart enough to know it.
We understood that wisdom came with experience, maturity and age. Knowledge was the purview of the educated, the wealthy and the gainfully employed, not feckless pinheads with an over-inflated sense of self-worth and Wikipedia book marked on their laptops.
In my day young people didn’t presume to understand important issues let alone have an opinion on them. If my old dad told me the piano teacher from down the road was a communist sympathiser, I didn’t offer up some lukewarm retread of the First Amendment in response – I shunned the man in public, pelted his house with crab apples and joined with a mob to run him out of town.
And even if we did think we knew better than our parents we kept our mouths shut. Contradict my father? I may have been ignorant but I sure as Hell wasn’t stupid.
But nowadays, every blowhole of a 15-year old thinks they have the answer to everything from healthcare reform to global warming to the pitching needs of the New York Yankees. And all based on their extensive experience sitting in their parent’s basement watching Scooby Doo Cartons, Ashton Kutcher movies and stuffing their mouths with Ding-Dongs, Skittles and Baby Ruth candy bars.
I blame television for the whole damned mess.
At first, children’s programs were meant to do little more than stop an unattended sprog from sticking his tongue in an electrical outlet but somewhere along the line they started slipping in nasty messages telling these damned kids they were unique, smart and had opinions worth sharing.
Well let me tell you, that damned Elmo may think you’re special but as far as I’m concerned until you’ve hung up your hoodie, held down a job and paid into the tax system, you’re just some know-nothing teenager who’d be wise to keep your damned mouth shut, your opinions to yourself and let the adults do your thinking for you.
That’s just my opinion. But unless you’re over 40, I don’t want to hear any argument.
They think they know everything. That’s the problem with young people today.
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Each of those were written when the writers’ societies were in serious decline!
Since I don't watch TV, where can I find a clip of that?
The only comment I have to your statement is that you had better up that age group to about 45 or 50.
90% of them, up till about that age are just brain dead zombies.
You have to learn to embrace the schaudenfreude that results to such people.
One of the best books ever written.
You can Blame 2 things: 1/ WORTHLESS “Parents” AND 2/ The “Public””School””System”.
Horse Hockey!
I’m 51, and between the ages of 13 and 18 I thought I knew everything.
All teenagers do. I believe it’s a chemical response in the brain brought on by puberty.
Hormones sometimes over ride common sense.
I guess using this guy’s example of vandalizing a neighbor’s because his “daddy said he was a communist sympathizer”,he’d be equally ok with painting Swastikas on the neighborhood Jew’s house, or burning a cross on the neighborhood Black’s house.
Which generation is preferable again?
It’s tongue in cheek humor
History repeats.
Unfortunately for us, the millenials are organized, united, and conformist enough to repeat the worst parts of history.
It’s tongue in cheek humor
As was my first paragraph.
But I don’t mind that kids are getting involved at a younger age.
They won’t all stay liberal, and it’s nice to see some fighters coming in behind us.
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