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Did I spend four hours posting my concern? No
Do I lack the ability to communicate with people the "old-fashioned" way? No
Did I spend my entire day indoors? No
Don't see any irony here.
So your strawman argument doesn't apply to you, just to some imaginary other cohort of kids?
I vividly hate this "But my parents thought Elvis Pressley would ruin society" analogy. Utter crap
My sisters moved to Europe to have children, I will be doing the same. Last thing I want is my child glorying individuals like Jay Z and Tiger Woods.
Western culture is a rotting disease.
Good luck to you then. Thank goodness Europe has nothing even remotely "Western" like cable TV and the Internet. It's just pastries and art museums and people playing alpine horns all day long.
Just because generations of the past were wrong says absolutely nothing about whether we're right or wrong about the younger generation of today.
You have a point, but that also proves that we should indeed question this assumption that the younger generation of today is leading the world to ruin.
Just because generations of the past were wrong says absolutely nothing about whether we're right or wrong about the younger generation of today.
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I think you focus on the correct point.The youth are using electronic devices and they are satisfied.By using this they are completely forgetting the social behavior and they have lack of awareness about society.As far as my knowledge is concern every academic board of the world include a subject that reform the social behavior of youth.
I'm fortunate enough to have grown up before iphones facebook etc and I thank my lucky stars for that.
God only knows what I would be trying to live down if I'd been able to post my stream of consciousness to the world at 14....!
I hang out at some clubs with good live music and a bunch of dinosaurs, and every so often we get a group of kids in "slumming it" or whatever, and they get drunk and start talking and all say "gee it must've been fun in the 80s when people actually talked instead of hanging on to their phones all night".
They don't even consider turning them off though! And they're so busy filming, posting, texting that they miss half the night.
Also, none of this is new. The same concerns were raised when tvs were brought into every house. The civilised folks ensured they turned it off at meal times etc so the Art of Conversation was forced to be the only entertainment. I never had the tv on, I haven't even owned one for about 3 years now. Plus I'd rather die than have a facebook account, my friend is 60 and is on it all the time and its a total pain in the arse.
I don't know... I'm a little more worried about the future of a country where 1 in 77 (in places) are being born on the Autism Spectrum. When these babies age out into adult-hood. Half will require pretty extensive care. Half of the other half will not be traditionally employable. The other half that might be employable won't be capable of doing work that couldn't be done by the exploitable labor caste whichever that turns out to be.
I vividly hate this "But my parents thought Elvis Pressley would ruin society" analogy. Utter crap
My sisters moved to Europe to have children, I will be doing the same. Last thing I want is my child glorying individuals like Jay Z and Tiger Woods.
Western culture is a rotting disease.
JayZ is a model of moral turpitude? Tiger? How typically American. Might I offer some better examples: Charlie Sheen, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan... don't go to Europe expecting to find the same veiled racism that exists in the U.S. Tiger's wife was European. Just saying. Her current flame is a celebrity athlete just like her ex-husband. She really learned her lesson I guess. I'm not leaving the U.S. because Tiger is a sex addict. You go ahead though, but I'd really avoid Europe in that case.
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