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They have been raised by video games, liberal progressive TV and movies, and by parents too busy trying to make ends meet, or keep up with the Jones, to actually take special interest in seeing their children develop viable healthy imaginations and creative internal drives.

Exactly. Video games are so straight forward, it takes no problem solving what so ever to be successful at the games. Also, every bit of entertainment I see shouts the virtue of living on welfare from the mountain tops. It's a miracle all of the young folks can even bathe themselves without government help.

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This generation has little to no respect for anything. They have very few manners. They have even fewer social skills.

This too. I grew up in the south, and no one around here seems to give a shite about manners. Plus why go out and party and talk to people when I can have just as much fun bullshitting on tigerdroppings. Meeting a woman? Who cares, I can look at titties on the internet. Same thing right?

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Yesterday it was revealed that, next to mortgage debt, educational debt is the second largest debt in the country. And it was also revealed that kids are dropping out of school at a higher rate than ever before in the history of this country.

That couldn't be because of the inflation of the price of college and the current aversion to debt, especially among the young. Plus, if I drop out I don't have to pay off the loans right? I'll just get them discharged in bankruptcy as I get on the government teet.

Oh wait...

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They've learned that their parents will allow them to move back home and live in their old bedrooms.

Yeah, since the cost of housing hasn't gone up in recent years and it is so easy to get a loan with limited credit history and "underemployment"; all of us just realized it's easier to live with our folks. Who wants independence and freedom?

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They've learned they can have babies and not have to marry, or worry about how to pay for them ... because Uncle Sugar and their parents will take care of all of that.

That's right, well just want to frick and watch TV all day. It's amazing really, how even in these tough economic times people aren't putting off having kids until later in life. You know, except that they are.

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It's simply easier to lay back, copy things, and enjoy life compared to say ... I dunno, being creative and carving their own niche in the history of the world.

Yes, because easier is just as rewarding as working hard.

The general point of your post reminded me of the song at the start of All In The Family. Nostalgia for a time that really didn't exist. The youth of today just have different challenges, but challenges nonetheless.

On the point of creativity, have people not been paying attention to the explosion of new technology over the past twenty years? "Creativity" is everywhere! People just aren't looking in the right places when they bemoan the creativity of current generations.