Your generation, the ones that survived. How many friends died in car crashed? How many drinking and driving and died? Died of "cancer" that were yet to be named? Obesity was not a problem, not because of better exercise alone, but SIGNIFICANTLY smaller portions. Cheating ran rampant, and teachers bended their knee to the coaches whims to get a guy on the team. Children are experiencing poverty not seen since the 30's. And that logo at the end is stolen from a "terrible, make kids lazy, computer game."
But it's a lot worse now. Look at the condition of the country- both morally and economically. I guess what i liked about that clip was that we seem so tied down by rules and laws. There's no more personal accountability anywhere. Not that every single little thing is worse, but overall I think society was better in the 40's thru the 70's in almost every respect. Not perfect, just better.
And who has made the rules change? It sure wasn't my generation that said "everyone should win" It was the baby boomers and the gen-x having kids that changed those rules.
Darwinism. The stupid should die from their stupidity. And where did you get the idea that cheating ran rampant? When people did cheat, there were consequences. My roommate cheated in college and they were chucked. Not suspended. Chucked. Never to return. And why are children experiencing poverty? Because every excuse in the book has been made for their parents.
So go turn off your computer. Unplug from the internet. Stop drinking your Starbucks and sell your Honda for some vintage car that will inevitably break down on you every 3 months. Watch some Mad Men so you can get that awesome feel of being empowered to make racist and sexist remarks without a hint of criticism. Plan on killing yourself a good 5-10 years earlier, because your life span is shorter. Move to an area where you can plan on getting mugged a lot more and possibly murdered, because crime rates were drastically higher back then. A few simple acts and you could get right back in the glory years. I don't even buy the idea that people were more accountable back then. Do you think a perp would be more likely to be brought up on charges for rape in 1950? Hardly. How come you never heard about Catholic priests raping little boys back in the 1960's? Do you think pedophilia was invented during the Clinton era? Just because nobody reported it didn't mean it didn't happen. Do you really feel like 3 television networks and a handful of newspapers did a better job of uncovering scandals than the gamut of media we have now? Ever hear of the Cuyahoga River? It literally caught on fire because corporations were dumping all kinds of toxins into it with complete impunity. No accountability. I agree that we are over-regulated in some ways now. Parents are definitely becoming too coddling. Kids need to toughen up. But I also think it's incredibly naive to look at past eras and pretend they were any more accountable.
damn kids and their pac man video games and their hula hoops and their dan fogelberg music! all people get old and then start to wax eloquent about "in my day, we used to carry an onion on our belt loop, it happened to be in style at the time" "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." socrates "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" plato
It's like the Mike and the Mechanics songs. Every generation, blames the one before. Wait, I mean, it's nothin like that. Every generation always thinks the next one is fucking things up, and things were always better when they were a kid. Wait, I mean the people who would've been in power, or had much more power/opportunity feel that way. My bad.
And kept smoking until they did, god damnit. I'm sure financially it seems we were better off as a country because they taxed at an enormous rate. Does that make things better somehow? I do get some people think it's better because they didn't have to observe rights for someone that wasn't a white male. But now we're awful because people sue people.
yeah thats another thing, HUGE tax rates, are we eagerly hoping for that to return? BP who knew you were such a tax and spend liberal!
Clinton invented it himself. Hear much about public school teachers, members of the teachers' union, who likewise are pedophiles? https://www.google.com/search?q=pub...d11edbb3dd00e&bpcl=39650382&biw=1228&bih=1173 66,800 results, looks like for the past year alone. Those priests be damned. What about the union members? Seems like a pretty major epidemic to me.
When I was a kid we played outside. Sports, riding a few miles to swim, fish, catch crawdads... Got dirty, skinned up, fights.... it was wholesome and healthy. Now, it's sit on a couch all day and night playing video games. When I got in trouble, dad took a belt to me. It hurt like hell, didn't kill me, and it and I learned from it. Today, dad goes to jail. I rode my bike without a helmet (still do) and if I bonked my head, I rubbed it, got back on and rode. If I bust my head open, so be it. Now, it's helmets and bike lanes and next guys will have to wear skirts to ride. Oh hell, I could go on, but the sissyfication of society is funny if it weren't so sad.
