Filthy Ageist!
Hope he’s still happy when the next generation thinks it’s only sensible to kill everyone over 75 because they are too expensive to support on ObamaCare. We are witnessing a future generation with no moral training. It won’t be pretty.
This debate was a surprise. Who’dathunk Stossel, who has reported fairly honestly on the deplorable state of education in the country, would contend that children are better off today than they were in the 50s? Better off HOW?—why, because they have IM and iPhones! BOR, for a change, was on the right side of this argument. But any mostly conscious adult should have reached the same conclusion. Maybe that description of libertarians is true: at best they’re childless conservatives.
Pretty good piece by Stossel.
I believe he is 100% correct that older Americans decry the modern age because they simply don’t understand it. Numbers and facts. It’s the same old story from 20 years ago....40 years ago.....60 years ago....and beyond. New fangled inventions mess with the young peoples’ minds they think all while forgetting about how their elders thought the same of radio, cars, TV, surfing, and, computers. People communicate today more than they have at any point in human history. They do so in a way different than years past, but, they do it. With sex and violence blasted across the waves to them, they are doing less of both.
It’s rather incredible actually.
While this may be a subjective topic, on the "violence" scale, "Halo" is generally much lower than the original "Doom" or even "Wolfenstein 3D."
Disappointed in Stossel. Reading and smoking marijuana are not comparable activities, and the persistent sexual revolution has done nothing to help aborted babies or broken families.
While one is more explicit, I don't know that either of those games is any more violent than Roadrunner or Bugs Bunny cartoons.
That's the money quote. You may easily deplore skanks on the web but we don't need congress telling us what's good for us.
While there are all kinds of reasons that have been given for getting kids separated from their cells, video controllers, etc., but the single best reason is that we’re creating a generation of plump, soft, couch potatoes.
Those are your future warriors and protectors, America.
For the same reason I think prisoners should be denied weight benches and exercise rooms and be fed a daily diet of 400+ calories of fat and sugar, we are raising a generation of the weak, the slow, and the non-durable.
Bumper sticker seen recently: Facebook does NOT need to know you went to the gym this morning.
The movie Gran Torino says volumes about this.
-— When Miley twerks, I cringe.
But again, where’s the harm? -—
Lost me there.
Well Mr. Stossel, the old farts said that Elvis and the Beatles were part of a communist plot to take over the country. And they were right, look who has nearly all the power now? Commies and their tools!
BOR is right here!- Marijuana and junk foods is what gives you zoned out Obama voters
Compare the literacy level of today's 18 year olds versus 1950's.
Compare the number of black men under 30 who have been in prison, versus the 1950's. Compare current homicide rates.
Just because we have not yet gone over the cliff, doesn't mean we are not getting closer and closer to the tipping point.
Some people like to point out this quote from Socrates:
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”They do not consider that, just a few decades after this quote, Greece was overrun and conquered by Macedonia, followed by Rome.
Hey, I resemble that remark. And so does probably 75% of Freepers. LOL. Hashtag that!
People who wonder where the younger generation is heading for would do well to remember where it came from...Philosofact.
My observation is that it isn’t so much that kids today are doing stupid/weird/dangerous/wild/irresponsible things. That’s always been the case and likely always will. And I suspect it’s not altogether harmful, at least for those who survive - you learn a lot from your own stupidity if it doesn’t kill you.
IMHO, it’s that, in previous generations, kids got over it and grew up. It seems now, it’s perfectly acceptable to act like a teenager well into one’s 30s and often later.
I always kinda wished that the Codgers hadn’t have left Brooklyn.