Posted on 07/27/2006 6:53:36 AM PDT by tang0r
Teenagers in the United States are growing up in a society that furnishes them more opportunity than any other country in the world. Much like the stereotypical teenager, it is not surprising that the majority of them haven’t a remote idea of how fortunate they really are.
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The train of thought that this person begins putting onto paper was interesting, then they tailed off. He is right, American teens are entirely self-absorbed, and have been so in some fashion since WW II ended.
bump for later
this is true of adults as well.
The true irony is that this anti-Capotilistic whines about our kids whining about not knowing how good they have it. The author does not seem to realize how good he has it.
Many, not all, have no idea and don't want to know.
MySpace: A Place for Naive and Narcissistic Children of Western Capitalism...
...and the freaks who eagerly prey on them, a kind of feeding frenzy of the willing.
Well said!
Everything this left-wing moonbat rant's author says about myspace users applies to him in spades. He sounds like the kind of clod who spends all day giving stories about how he walked uphill five miles to to and from his one room school-house.
[...American teens are entirely self-absorbed...]
And it's a good thing most of them feel incompetent to
cast a wise vote at elections. In my opinion this
makes them... wise.
And when I was a kid I was told to clean my plate because there were starving children in the world. I'm 45 and I had it too good growing up too. We complained in our journals and over the phone for hours about our parents, teacher etc. I don't know how it's any different today...just a different medium to whine on.
so we have it better off in America. I hate to sound mean to the other countries but...so what? we have it better off, and we like it.
I don't think the MySpace genie is going back into the bottle for a very purile reason: sex. I deal with incoming college freshmen daily and listening to them talk it's clear that many, many of them are having girl/boy friends --loosely defined---over this service. It is a meat market, in plain english.
A much larger medium to whine on, in terms of sheer numbers of people. When you were younger (and I'm nearly the same age as you), we may have whined to friends about "how terrible life was," but it was a small group of friends, and we actually had relationships with them.
Today, kids seem to have their "virtual" friends without any of the constraints or manners of a real friendship. They interpret an e-mail, instant message, or a comment about their profile as acceptance--validation of their being--and a "friendship." It's too easy to have "relationships" in cyberspace, it's too easy to feel one has some sense of importance because "friends" have linked to their pages. How does the saying go?
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
Having a picture of your kid doing a Monster Bong may not be conducive to getting a job.
Hits pretty close to home.
Oh, that doesn't sound good!
BFLR
I would say it's uncanny that the author knows so much about MySpace and the wrecked kids that inhabit it, but anyone who browses underage sites over there would see it. To those who don't believe it's happening to their own kids? Think again. Get their password and read their emails to each other to see just how messed up they are... or THINK they are.
Exactly. There is a lot of use because (I believe) there is much more random sex.
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