You know, not all "kids these days" rants are wrong or just old people not understanding. These new communications mediums we have available to us will have both positive and negative consequences.
Many such rants are trying to point out some of the apparent negative consequences; it's naive to assume that we understand the potential side effects all this technology will have on future generations and it's ignorant to refuse to discuss them because previous generations also bitched about "kids these days".
I didn't say the next generation was going down the tubes, I said they were broken and seemed to have less ability to focus deeply than people my age seemed to have at that age. I'm sure in other ways they're more advanced than we were, such as computer skills and social skills.
Rather than just blowing off my statement as another rant, try replying to it with an actual argument because bullshit it is not.
As a father, I have every right to be worried about the next generation and much first hand experience witnessing it. Try to unplug a kid these days, make them go outside and play, entertain themselves without computers, tv, and cellphones and constant connection to their virtual friends on myspace. It's fucking scary, they can't do it, they don't know to entertain themselves or be alone.
...Has there ever been a more insecure generation?...
...Kids these days have virtually no focus...
...I want to smash her phone into the ground and strap her head to the back of chair...
...It's fucking scary...
First, your statements are hyperbolic to the point of being pointless. You're extending your extremely narrow and biased experience to millions of people and writing off a generation wholesale. Nothing productive comes of this.
Second, I clearly said that there are things about the newest generation that are negative, so it's not that I'm assuming we understand all the side effects. But you didn't present any of your arguments from that perspective, so much as "Kids today are fucked up. Why, back in my day..." This rewrites history to ignore all the negative things about your generation and all the positive things about the current generation. I don't really believe that one generation is overall better or worse than another. They're just different and they live in such different environments that comparison is somewhat pointless.
I don't understand it. On the one hand you have people like you who make the claim that kids these days are developing an overdependence on society. On the other hand you have people claiming that our devices are preventing us from interacting with other people (i.e. kids playing video games all day or whatever). I think the fact of the matter is that you can't talk about a generation with blanket statements. People are different and they play differently. Some will play alone, while others will go out into the neighborhood and try to play with other kids.
Many such rants are trying to point out some of the apparent negative consequences; it's naive to assume that we understand the potential side effects all this technology will have on future generations and it's ignorant to refuse to discuss them because previous generations also bitched about "kids these days".
I didn't say the next generation was going down the tubes, I said they were broken and seemed to have less ability to focus deeply than people my age seemed to have at that age. I'm sure in other ways they're more advanced than we were, such as computer skills and social skills.
Rather than just blowing off my statement as another rant, try replying to it with an actual argument because bullshit it is not.
As a father, I have every right to be worried about the next generation and much first hand experience witnessing it. Try to unplug a kid these days, make them go outside and play, entertain themselves without computers, tv, and cellphones and constant connection to their virtual friends on myspace. It's fucking scary, they can't do it, they don't know to entertain themselves or be alone.