You meddling kidz wrote:
Kids today. Live in the greatest country in the world, with more opportunities for success than any other place in history, and yet, want to blame everyone else for their dumb decisions on paying 50k/yr to get a sociology degree at a small woke liberal arts college. Woe is me!! I have to work??? I have to try??? But, I am so special!!
Oh, and stop bullying each other so much in high school that you all shoot the school up every two weeks.
1. I’m assuming the country you’re referring to as “the greatest country in the world” is the United States of America. This is wrong, by almost every metric. Manufacturing, education, freedom of speech, privacy infliction, you name it. The USA might have been the greatest country in the world 40-50 years ago, but this is purely because no WW2 battle was done on the USA’s contiguous homeland. Every other superpower was shattered in one of the most brutal wars of mankind; America got lucky. What followed was an ignorant and unbelievable waste of half a century as carbon emissions and birth rate skyrocketed. Meanwhile, those shattered superpowers built their empire back together, piece by piece. In colloquial words, the past generation partied for decades while the rest of the world came back and surpassed us in every practical area.
2. As a corollary to 1., we have dire problems in the world that currently faces us. The complaint isn’t that this new generation has to work, but rather that the problems that were not caused by us must be fixed by us. This is inarguable, and if you disagree, I cannot debate this point. While I could agree that the current generation has contributed to our imminent consequences, there is no possible argument that this was the current generation’s fault. All these parents keep criticizing the immense use of technology and video games by their kids, but they’re the ones supplying the addiction. Etc. etc. my fingers are tired.
3. I somewhat agree with your point of it being a “dumb decision” for everyone to go to college, especially for useless degrees. I attend a small, liberal arts school, and I think that at least half the students here are wasting their time and their parents money. However, this trend of unnecessary attendance of college did not simply appear out of thin air. Millions of parents, school administrators, and government workers have ingrained the parallel of college to success into millions of children.
4. The problem of school shootings is not a bullying problem. I would argue the media’s coverage of school shootings has actually been the sole reason they’ve become so popular. Not only does a 24/7 coverage of a shooting implant the idea of doing it into a mentally deranged gun owner, it also proves that this person would get tremendous coverage. He or she has typically been abandoned or abused by society, and all he has to do is go into an elementary school with an AR for subsequent years of attention.
While this post is very drawn out and redundant, I’m very bored at an airport right now. Anyways, my concluding point is that you can essentially trace back the roots of almost any current problem to the last generation.