The Not So Greatest Generation (The Dumbest Generation: Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
Idiocracy is here.
Yeah, yeah, every generation has been labelled as such. Elvis was going to be the death of us all. Didn’t happen.
picture in your mind a person of average intelligence, now remember that if they are average half the people are dumber than that, and now you know how Obama was elected.
That's not to deny the fact that there's a grain of truth in what this guy's complaining about, but I suspect that this next group of young folks is going to surprise us.
“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).
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... 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 are tyrants over their teachers.” Unattributed, but sometimes attributed to Aristotle.
Amazing, another those damned kids and their rock and roll music thread.
"I searched and could not find this posted. IMO the dumbest generation also seem to be Obamaites."
You're setting yourself up for quite a disappointment if you believe that. Especially when it comes to one the 10 reasons, listed.
Could you guess which one? ;^)
BTW, I voted on which of the 10 items I'd thought the best reason for the metastasizing banality.
Guess what happened after I voted & clicked on, "View Results"?
Nothing.
The link didn't work.
BWWWWWHAAAAAAA!!!
Lack of capitalization and IM codes dominate on line
writing. Without spell check, folks are toast.
Even with spell check, some people can't write a
complete sentence.
They use cant (semisecret jargon like thieves talk,
rap, pig Latin, etc) for the contraction of can not
(can't) and loose in place of lose or loss.
I would also contend that it still isn't set; consider British "colour," "labour," and "civilization" against American "color," "labor," and "civilisation."
.....3. They can’t spell.....
Freepers who post after turning 65 are exempt from spelling or typo errors
wow, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever read?
so my generation is the dumbest because we have computers and play Grand Theft Auto IV?
Not even mentioned is that never in history has a generation had access to so much information to back up opinions or factual statements and do so little with it. I call this the age of unreason as there also has never been so much inaccurate information available as we see with the actions of today’s liberals. Their belief that terabytes of poorly sourced touchy feeley opinion pieces can equal one fact is also ruining our society.
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“A recent poll taken of government officials revealed that 95% are liberal-politically, religiously, academically, and socially. That is to say that politically they prefer greater government and thus more human control. Religiously they prefer revisionist interpretations to the literal meaning of Scripture, and they are mostly agnostic and secular humanist. Academically they prefer relativism to reason or absolutes, opinions to evidence, outcome based evaluations and government control over curriculum. Socially they prefer multiculturalism and the absence of moral restraints. The same pollsters took the pulse of the media and discovered that 95% were both liberal and agnostic. Academia is equally skewed with 95% of university professors saying that they hold liberal views. Political correctness is the secular humanist’s version of morality.
This means one or all of the following three things must be true. Academia is manufacturing a comatose society of misfits without a moral compass who can no longer think. Only political, religious, social, and academic liberals are interested in working in society shaping and conditioning fields. Or, the administrators in government, university, and media centers are so biased they will only hire like-minded individuals.”- Craig Winn
The only way to stop the decay is to reinstitute discipline in the classroom. I'm thinking spankings. I'll handle the sororities.
The problem for me isn’t the ignorance of the kids, but the distorted thinking. Maybe this comes from too much exposure to left-wing groups, who rely heavily on the emotions rather than the intellect. But if you talk to these people, you start to feel like you’re in the Twilight Zone. They are not rational. At all.
I don’t have to read 129 posts to know you’re going to get skewered big time for suggesting a whole generation is stupid. (Never mind the professor/author.)
It’s happened before. Just neat to see it NOT be about the Hippie generation.
Thanks BBell.