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yoofs in the future
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In the average day, where do most of our influences come from? The media, the workplace/college, friends, family, and the internet. If we look at the media, who runs the media? Aside from Rupert Murdock jokes, how many journalists are teenagers?
Well, I like this.. projection into the future from the perspective of a teenager living in 2026
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19125691.800;jsessionid=EGNBGEEFKBKH?DCMP=ILC-OpenHouse&nsref=mg19125691.800INT
It's not often the ministers, journalists and such actually say kids being kids is a good thing, a desirable thing.
Well, I like this.. projection into the future from the perspective of a teenager living in 2026
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19125691.800;jsessionid=EGNBGEEFKBKH?DCMP=ILC-OpenHouse&nsref=mg19125691.800INT
It's not often the ministers, journalists and such actually say kids being kids is a good thing, a desirable thing.
If "religion is the opiate of the people", then immersive multiplayer 3D virtual worlds are hard-core Afghani heroin.
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No.
In the 50's and 60's it was Rock n Roll that was going to kill our kids.
In the 70's and 80's it became Heavy Metal.
In the 90's I can't remember if it was anything.
Now in the 2000's, it seems that Computer Games and Black Metal are getting the blame.
And we aren't dead yet!
Not only that but humanity has jumped leaps and bounds since then. I hate the fact that every generation our parents are blaming us for everything, give us a break ffs.
Oh and in the 90's it was ecstacied up ravers!
The punks/metal heads/hippies weren't kids either. It was the whole "my kid is going to grow up just like them and society is fucked" attitude by the older generations.
I think we're moving towards that sort of society but where this is pushed, there will always be dissent. We're always getitng told what and what not to do but whether we listen or not is a different story altogether.
Exactally.
Hell, Google is just one step up the ladder.
Did people bitch and moan when Encyclopedias where invented? Libraries? Books? All made research easier. The internet is merl a progression of this, google the searching tool another.
What, do these cocks want us to turn back evolution too incase it makes life to easy and destorys Humanity? Fuck off. Science and Progress can't be stopped, be you The Church, Islamist Clerics, Paranoid Parents, Or just general mad cunts.
Progress is a natural process, you can't stop it. We shall always strive to make things better.
90's techno
I thought that the point was that control was killing a generation.
Yea, precisely. I'm tired
No, not killing, but degenerating. Wait until we got flashy helmets with lots of wires going to our computer that substitutes our real life. VIRTUAL SEX!!! NO MORE GOING OUT AND GETTING TO KNOW CHICAS!
I think it's getting gradually worse and since all of that is nurture and not nature I am afraid of having children. I saw how it runs with my sister. so fucking many divorces, so much aggression, hell those 12 year olds drink alcohol in school to be "the cool and nasty kid everyone talks about". Homework? nooo way... MSN 24/7.
Wearing make-up like chinese carnival masks. So many youngsters leave grammar school (your only real option here), at 4th grade, to get shitty but easier education. Cell phone bills you won't fucking believe it!
No learning, going out everyday, returning at 9-10pm (I am speaking of 13 year olds here).
No fucking music taste anymore, just fucking techno, no independant clothing, just from head to heel in dolce and gafucka, gucci, ralph lauren BOLLOCKS.
it's an infestation and it will affect your KID TOO!
If it's all "good" progress is hard to say. Yes, many things make our lifes more comfortable, on the other hand we tactically destroy mother nature and our climatic with pollution and exhaust gases. Cancer rates are growing with unbelieveable speed.
I don't say "huurrr, back to stoneage", but I say not everything that's new must be improvement SEEN IN TOTAL.
However, I do think that there is a dangerous sub section of teenagers who for one reason or other just dont seem to give a fuck about anything and are deeply deeply anti-social. And our effort to criminalise everyone under the age of 30 isnt helping.
Women smoking, disrespect for elders, long hair, lounging about all day doing nothing - to say nothing of the pits of depravity which played music such as jazz and were open all night.
Nothing ever changes - old people think young people are a wasters (except for the ones they know) and young people think old people are out to stop them having fun (grandparents exempt)
Before the war there was national service
I suppose so, and I know its traditional for old people like me to complain about kids, but I do think there is something different in the generation who are about 16 now. There are a sub-group who seem so angry, I dont know, I just dont see any future for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoyMnDLlrk
Strictly speaking that was after the war.
But there's always been this sub-group. It isn't new that there this bunch of feral youth who not only have no future, but don't particually want one.
The majority of young people who hang round corners swearing and drinking, will in twenty years time, be grumbling about young people and struggling to pay mortgages.
It wasn't pointless for me.
It was a way to socialise with my mates and have fun. Better than having square eyes that's for sure.