God ****** Know-it-All Young People Make me Furious

Facebook ^ | 9/13/15 | Some Irrate ol Fogey

[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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[cyclotic]

I saw that “know it all” attitude a few weeks ago on Shark Tank. A recent Stanford MBA grad who was asking for money proceeded to tell the Tank and Kevin O’Leary the proper way to run a business.

“That’s not how it’s done.” she told him with all the wisdom of an overeducated snob.

Needless to say, she walked away with her ears burning from a lecture and no takers for her horrible business idea.

[ETL]

I guess it’s the result of being young, very pretty, and not caring a crap about much else besides the latest Hollywood hunk and getting their nails done.

YouTube clip: 48 sec

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

[Tallguy]

Great rant!

[ETL]

Heck, it's not any worse than what these two idiots below said...

Must see YouTube video! (no joke, he was dead serious!)

March 2010:

Democrat Representative Hank Johnson fears Guam may tip over and "capsize" due to overpopulation!

Check out the reaction of the military official he was questioning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
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According to Sheila Jackass Lee, man has already been to Mars.

Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[doorgunner69]

Been on too many forums in the past where the millenials liked arguing about something they were patently too young to know about. It was plain they used Wiki to bolster their lack of experience and would fly into a rage when you nailed them on it.

I really pissed one off saying I imagined a millennial cocktail party where most conversations had to keep stopping while they consulted their smartphone for information so they could keep arguing.

[jughandle]

Amazing how much knowledge and wisdom our 18 year old girl amasses every week of her life these days! As of today she knows how to manage my finances, raise our other two kids, fail college classes, and lose a job!

[Sirius Lee]

I’ll tell you what the problem is: It’s those damned kids with their rock and roll and long hair and bobby sox and jalopies and negro jazz grass cigarettes! And don’t get me started on straw boater hats!!!

[arthurus]

Kids will always be upstarts, the trick is getting them started up in the right direction

Just a little touch up there.

[arthurus]

Perhaps young people would be doing that if the old fogeys hadn’t eliminated content from the entire educational system and substituted brainwashing and propaganda.

[CodeToad]

The Internet makes them believe information is cheap and readily available, yet, they understand so little. Experience, not knowledge, makes for wisdom and capabilities.

Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are a fruit; wisdom is knowing they don’t belong in a fruit salad.

To be old and wise one must first survive being young and stupid.

[mylife]

Yeesh.

[mylife]

HAr!!!

[mylife]

I will look that up

[mylife]

So it Tis, now get the fark off my lawn!! ☺

[mylife]

Stanford is a great college but sometimes you cant fix stupid

[mylife]

School of hard knocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkLhmbSgkw

[thackney]

What I remember from that my late teens and early 20s, I was an idiot at many levels. I also was quite willing to tell people what was wrong with their thinking and why I was right.

I was generally polite, but certainly not afraid to share a strong (and now understood to be foolish) opinion with those that wanted to discuss.

As I have regularly told my teenagers, teenagers are really stupid, but they don’t have a clue how stupid they are. And when they are intelligent teenagers, they tend to have greater cluelessness.

I have found it takes wisdom to understand you don’t know what you don’t know. And even after decades it can be tough to accept that.

[Teacher317]

Isn’t the direct translation of sophomore “wise idiot”?

[mylife]

So it is

[Tijeras_Slim]

Phooey, we’re probably both old enough to remember “The Clouds” by Aristophanes where young Phidippides, under the sway of Socrates exclaims....

“How pleasant it is to know these clever new inventions and to be able to defy the established laws! Now that the master has altered and improved me and that I live in this world of subtle thought, of reasoning and of meditation, I count on being able to prove satisfactorily that I have done well to thrash my father.”