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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And they all have stupid blogs.
It’s “Generation Kardashian.”
Yessir, it’s Gol Dang shame!
“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. “
This guy just pegged FR’s liberal wing.
Hear! Hear!
OMG Brother and I are beside our selves with the narcissistic mayhem of their lives.
Ed Anger... Is that you?
Just blowing off some steam LOL
When I was in my late teens/early 20's I don't think I was smart enough to know it. I had philosophical discussions with my Dad while I took the moronic side.
I don't think my views were so radical as to cause the damage opinions in that direction cause today. My Dad wasn't above telling me my views showed nitwitery.
These days it's not polite for conservatives to push back.
Do what?
I’m gonna take a nap....
These amazing young folks know stuff even if it ain't so.
Young people have ALWAYS thought they knew everything.
The University of Cambridge was founded because Oxford was just too dangerous because of the students continual rioting.
That was in 1209.
That name brought a chuckle. Whatever happened to him? I’m thinking he ran off with Dear Dotti.
This screed was originally carved on walls of caves and has been updated by every generation since.
I had some education as a young 19 year old but it took the Marine Corps to really educate me.
You drive up to Artic Circle and wait, wait, wait, and then you place your order, go to pay for it, they look at you like your an alien, you get your food, look at it, it's wrong, you honk, they come over, you tell them it's not right and they just give you a look like’’’I just stand here, how am I to know it's wrong’’’ by that time, your out of the car inside, and there's a whole group of the little idiots standing there’’’I only work here....’’’
Yep know exactly what you mean!!!
The attitude from the millenial types comes from the left-wing indoctrination. Not only are they spoon-fed the belief system, but they are spoon-fed the attitude that anyone who doesn’t but into the belief system is inferior. This is classic Nazi-type brainwashing: “We are the master race! Anyone who isn’t one of us is inferior!” Every nasty ideology ever to spring from the earth has used this tactic, because it draws in people who would otherwise never have any reason to believe themselves superior to anyone.
My Dad got so sick of our dimwitted love fer fellow man while we fought like cats and dogs that he bought 2 pairs of boxing gloves.
He showed us how to lace theme up, Uncle cited the Marquis of Quennsberry rules....
We entered the ring...
They lit cigars, smiled and we knocked each other out
Funny old gentlemen they was aways splittin their sides a laffin
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