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re: Why does this generation lack creativity?
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:15 pm to scrooster
Posted on 2/28/13 at 4:15 pm to scrooster
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They are the entitlement generation ... they believe everything is owed them, therefore they have no motivation to seek anything for themselves. And that applies to some, not all, by any means.
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.
This generation has little to no respect for anything. They have very few manners. They have even fewer social skills.
Here's the irony.
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.
Why?
Because they've learned that the government will pay them enough to sustain them through life ... no need to actually be creative, and work for it any longer.
They've learned that their parents will allow them to move back home and live in their old bedrooms.
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.
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.
Many of them believe they are actually doing something by being expert trolls on the Internet, or by being disrespectful to their elders or ... well, you asked.
....In the meantime, I'll get off your lawn, old timer.
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 7:21 pm to OMLandshark
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....In the meantime, I'll get off your lawn, old timer.
No, don't do that. Come on inside and you can watch Archer with me over a couple of my home brews and my wife will grill us a nice steak while I'm showing you around - pictures of me at Carolina back in the day, me in the 82nd Airborne jumping, me in a lot of different countries with a lot of different women and other friends. Me with all my kids when they were growing up. Me with my different businesses, my different dogs, my horses. Me we Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, Floyd Spence. Me in Sun Valley with Scott Glenn. Me in New York with Glenn Beck. A picture of Steve Spurrier, Georgia Rogers and me on the tee about to tee off. I've got some good stuff to show you about my life and how hard work pays off and allows me now to sit around a frick off all day.
I'm no old prude. I'm still 21 years old in my head and I'm still waking up with frickin' oak every morning ... just ask my young wife. But I also know the differences between generations and I can tell you that yes, older generations usually see things screwed-up about younger generations because it is true ... but it has not been going-on forever. It started in the 20s, with the Suffrage Movement, and as soon as women got the right to vote many of them immediately started voting progressive ... and I get that. But what it has evolved into, every single generation since, is a social entitlement thing ... Teddy Roosevelt started it, Woodrow Wilson perpetuated the shite out of it, FDR turned it into an art form and honestly, we've been screwed every since then ... you can barely tell one lying politician giving it away from the other, they are all the same with the possible exception of Reagan and even he ticked me off at times.
We've ruined each successive generation by trying to give them too much ... by wanting to make things better for them than we had it rather than allowing them to make their own mistakes and make things better for themselves.
I could go on and on. Call me an old timer if you want, I guess I deserve it, but understand this, we all think alike, most of us men I should type - it's just that us older ones have more experience when it comes to thinking than you younger guys do. We all still love the pretty ladies, the money, the guns the cars the football ... it's just us older guys know the proper priority for each item on the list.
And that is where things got screwy in this country. The youngsters these days think they are supposed to immediately have everything the rest of us have worked for our entire lives to have. I see it all the time in my company when interviewing new people. That is the big difference between the way it was then and the way it was now. Everyone feels entitled to something in one way or the other, just on different levels.
This post was edited on 2/28/13 at 7:23 pm
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