It didn’t do it to me but then I started late, I was in my twenties before I had access to pot or even very much junk food. Looking back at some of the conversation that I am still able to remember it is a wonder that most of us actually did manage to make a living somehow.
Actually I think Stossel is missing some clues. The percentage of those in their twenties, thirties and even forties who are acting like children now would have been unthinkable fifty years ago. I often tell people how, at 23 years, I had an honorable discharge from the Navy, a Navy electronics certificate, a job earning what would amount to at least 65 thousand a year now in inflation adjusted terms and a new car which I bought with my earnings and was considered a failure because I did not already have a wife and at least one child. Compare that to now. I actually remember feeling bad about myself back then, thinking I was a real slacker. Of course, in those days, the school buses in this state were driven by high school juniors and seniors and they did a very fine job of it. I would have been a driver myself had I not made a single mistake on the driving test while crossing a railroad track. No errors were allowed on the driving test and no retests were given. Think about that compared to today’s teenagers.
One other thing, today’s young people are not, for the most part, capable of carrying on a real conversation, regardless of what Stossel may think. There are exceptions as there are always exceptions but the rule stands. All anyone need do is watch some old movies from the forties to realize that something is vastly different in what passes for communication now.
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