Posted on 10/26/2016 4:16:40 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
We are witnessing the development of generations of self-absorbed citizens with grandiose infantile delusions of entitlement
When my mother was getting on in years (She lived to see 90 and three great grandchildren) she said to me that she was glad that she was closer to death-she would not have to live to see the next generation! I must be getting on in years, too, because I can’t imagine what the West will look like in years to come. I have been listening to the comments and opinions expressed by and about the Millennials and the Snowflakes-yes you heard right-the latest generation has been labelled Snowflakes.
I have trouble with the names of the different generations, so I looked them up. ”Millennials (also known as Generation Y, Generation Me and Echo Boomers) are the demographic cohort following Generation X, a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000.” And “Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a term that refers to young people, typically university or college students, who seek to avoid emotionally charged topics or dissenting ideas and opinions.”
Ya know...pussies
“Snowflake” behavior is still not a protected class. Personality test could be developed to detect the classic “snowflake” attitude and they should be actively discriminated against in employment on the basis that they come with too much potential drama.
I had some liberal troll ask me, apparently in earnest, what we should do about the uninsured now that Obamacare is predictably tanking. I replied that they were none of my concern as they were neither my children nor members of my family and that government’s attempts to make them my concern were getting more and more expensive and heavy-handed.
Freedom is a two-way street but some people want all the lights to be green in their direction only.
And they’re perfectly willing to murder another 100 million to get communism right this time.
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint"
--Hesiod, 8th century BC
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
--Plato, 5th-4th century BC
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
--Socrates (apparently disputed), 5th century BC
According to Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979), an Assyrian clay tablet dating to approximately 2800 BC was unearthed bearing the words "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common."
I trained and worked as a life guard for several seasons during my teens. One of the primary rules I learned was that I couldn’t assist anyone if I allowed myself to be placed at critical risk. You can’t save someone when you’re drowning yourself.
So it is with socialism - which is after all where Øbamacare is leading us. We will be incapable of helping anyone else if (when) we are so heavily burdened by costs that we can’t take care of ourselves.
i dunno. kind of an admission about how their kids turned out.
government is not family.
its not your buddy.
its not your parents, or your wallet, your husband, or your provider.
weve allowed it to be all these things it is not.
FSA - thugs, criminals, conmen, collectivists, hacks, scumbags, politicians, enablers, propagandists, progressives, socialists, totalitarians
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
How exactly do liberals understand freedom? Like this. Real freedom is the freedom to smoke drugs and sell them to your friends and neighbors. Simple.
I try not to read letters-to-the-editor idiocy these days, mostly because it’s a reminder of the ignorance our public schools produce, but any time a letter began ‘This country was founded on XYZ...’ I know I’m going to read complete bollocks where someone is advocating more Big Brother.
It’s been said a million times but these people don’t realize that never in the history of man has government of any structure willingly ceded freedom back to the people. When it’s gone it’s gone.
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