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Originally Posted by RomulusXXV
Poor kids indeed! Many are no less than spoiled narcissists who don't give a damn about anything but themselves and the present.
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Speaking of narcissist . . .
Pity that you work with kids in a volunteer matter with naive perceptions like this.
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Originally Posted by RomulusXXV
Again ...a stupid response to a serious society matter. Your example of 'zombies' regarding people reading newspapers while commuting is FAR removed from the matter that I'm discussing. These newspapers - people actually filling their heads with NEWS rather than obsessed with social media crap - are put down as soon as people disembark from their mode of transportation. These newspapers are not attached to their hand, these people don't suffer anxiety or a panic attack when they are not carrying a newspaper, these people are able to actually interact with other people without any distractions such as having to take a peek at their newspaper every few minutes ...get the idea? Or, are you too so absorbed in your own stupid phone that you're unable to drag yourself long enough away from it to actually see the harm that it's doing to your kids?
But anyway, it was "I" who initiated this thread so I guess I have to at least show some appreciation for a response ...even if devoid of at least a modicum of intelligence or concern. So, thanks for your response.
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Nice personal insults. Check the terms & conditions. I find it comical that you are actually using social media to rant against social media.
Also, you mention me being too absorbed in my own stupid phone & being on social media, when I look up & see you've been on here for 3 years yet have roughly the same # of posts as me in the 10 1/2 years I've been here. Looks like you're the one spending too much time on social media. You do realize people use their phones to read the news. Every newspaper, medical journal, magazine is available in digital format to read on your phone. People actually use their phones for more than social media. The way tech is going, we're going to be needing to use our phones more & more as banks, newspapers, shopping etc turns more digital. It'd be ignorant to think every person you see looking at their phone is addicted & will become anxious if their phone is away from them.
The newspaper mention was very fitting. Spend some time to read up on history & you'll read all about how the Victorians ranted about the newspaper. They expressed fear & anger that people were too self-absorbed & distracted. They would lose the ability to socialize. They couldn't put the paper down. Sound familiar?? There's lots of examples throughout history of people like you who overly feared advancements, technology, & basically anything that occupies our time that is new. Look at how comical these examples sound today.
Socrates: thought the advancement of written word would make people stupider.
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From an article in 1859 about the dangers of chess:
"A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises--not this sort of mental gladiatorship."
But yes, just like you, people have always found things to complain about the youth. Nothing is new.
From an article from 1904
"Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions."
Self-absorbed children. An article from 1853.
"... see the simpering little beau of ten gallanting home the little coquette of eight, each so full of self-conceit and admiration of their own dear self, as to have but little to spare for any one else... and confess that the sight is both ridiculous and distressing... the sweet simplicity and artlessness of childhood, which renders a true child so interesting, are gone (like the bloom of the peach rudely nipped off) never to return."
But, interesting enough a lot of articles are discussing that the Millennials (those you claim are seriously addicted to their phones) are the new Victorians.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...ians-b8875ggj5
This talks about how millenials/post-millenials are going to be the new Victorians. They'll be the stuffy, uber-moral generation and that the baby boomers were like regency ladies who wore dresses made out of semi-see through thin materials and wet them down so they'd be extra see-through.