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165 comments submitted at 00:42:32 on Jul 23, 2014 by OraIFixation
This is like teenagers discussing what they'll let their kids do when they're parents.
And this is why mankind is becoming less and less respectable. Seriously worried about the future...
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Yeah? How about you go work in fucking retail for a day? You'll see all the worthless scum that come in and realise that the world is going nowhere but down. When was the last big progressive leap huh?? Oh wait, it's "too costly" and "not important." Try to think of new generations in a positive way when you see the role-models constantly bitching and having an asshole entitled attitude.
Every generation complains about the youth of today. Cato the Elder was moaning about their lack of respect and morals (and also that they paid too much for slaves, which doesn't come up much these days) 2100 years ago.
This is an age-old concern troll.
My favorite stuff comes from the Victorian parents of the teens from the roaring 20's. Talk about your generation gap there! They went from covered piano legs (can't let people see the piano legs, too suggestive!) and corsets to watching their braless daughters dance with strange boys, bob their hair, and drink bathtub gin whilst showing their KNEES! In public! Many smelling salts were needed.
That piano leg thing is a myth. Those covers were to protect from everyday wear and were removed for "company". Victorians in Britain used to say the "piano legs covered for modesty" thing about Americans, who they thought were too prudish.
Ah, ok, interesting! I do know they hyperventilated about ankles showing, though, so there's that.
Well yes. I mean, have you seen women these days? Flaunting their ankles and sometimes even ELBOWS! ELBOWS!!!!!!!! Hussies.
Most women's dresses stopped above the ankle because roads were in (often literally) shit conditions, so the idea that people would freak out about ankles doesn't make any sense. Maybe like a naked ankle? Women would be wearing boots or boot-like shoes when walking around or shopping, so maybe it would be weird if like, you wore a walking dress that stopped above your ankles and then wore your ballroom slippers in the streets. But more because you are just failing at getting dressed. Most of the things that you've learned about the Victorian period from cartoons and movies just aren't true. /Victorianist hat off
Everything you just said is history repeating itself. 'Big progressive leap' is something that's easy to notice from a hundred years ago, not when you're in the middle of it.
Also every single fucking generation ever was stuffed with assholes, nothing new there either. Just because you now happen to notice them since you're in retail doesn't mean it's a new trend.
The last big progressive leap was the internet and it's a pretty darn big one.
I don't know man. When was the last "progressive leap" that required everyone to jump on board for it to happen?
Space race? Industrial Revolution? It all piddled out and now we're so focused on turning a profit and being efficient that no one wants to progress. It's likely we won't have another one for a very long time too. I mean the government no longer funds NASA because they don't seem to think it's worth it. That's all bullshit. And downvote me if you all want to I'll stand by my beliefs, I could give a fuck about fake internet points I got plenty of them anyways.
I don't think the space race was something that everyone decided to just do. I'm pretty sure it was started by a relatively small group of people, namely government agencies who believed that with their current abilities, they could launch things into space. I don't think your average citizen had sufficient knowledge in ballistic missiles to lead a revolution. The industrial revolution also. I don't think your average citizen in the 18th or 19th century knew enough to be initiators of the Industrial revolution, rather again, a relatively small group of people stumble upon new findings and new ways of doing things and that your average citizen was just a worker.
We're talking about the average person going into a retail store. Those people are just living their lives. Unless you worked at some retail place that catered to government agencies and the big wigs, I don't think any of the average people you'll meet in retail are going to be the people deciding how the government spends their budget.
Funding NASA and space exploration may seem cool and what not but there are seriously other things to worry about here on earth. Plus, I'm pretty sure there are alternatives to NASA, namely SpaceX and so government funded agencies are needed a little less when there are privately funded agencies.
TL;DR I'm pretty sure both of the cultural revolutions you named didn't require your average joe to have knowledge of the intricacies of what was actually going on. They themselves had their own lives to deal with.
I don't know man, just doesn't seem as bad as what you're painting it as.
This generation is no worse than the previous ones.
Saw a post yesterday about a girl who wanted to sue her dentist because she got her allowance taken away by her mother. If that isn't false entitlement nothing is. Wouldn't have had that issue 50 years ago.
Edit: more proof http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-charged-oklahoma-child-abuse-kenya-24662622
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are you really going to use 1 anecdote to prove that this generation is worse?
That was 2. And go look for more if you're unsure, I'm sure they're out there. Saw another one a while ago about a girl who wanted to sue her parents over not paying for her college. It's all about false entitlement.
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So your evidence is the entitlement of upper-middle-class young people, and the existence of paedophiles? I hate to break it to you, but both of those have been around for a long, long time.
People used to own other people. Used to be OK to beat your wife. It was taboo to be homosexual. There was a genocide. Take off your rose tinted glasses.
I thought all those things still happened in parts of the world? Indentured servitude in Chinese factories, anti-gay laws in Uganda (punishable by death (!!!)), and in sure you'll find a heap of modern societies that turn a blind eye to spousal abuse. Genocide? The most recent I can think of is the hutus and tutsis, though I seem to remember something about Indonesia and Timor.
I know it sounds harsh, but while some parts of the world have "progressed" it's still business as usual in large chunks of the world.
If you don't think we are still advancing as a society you are blind.
Black president, gay marriage being legalized, Marijuana being legalized, curiosities Rover, Internet speeds, long lifespan, safest time to be alive yet, self driving cars, and more
> Space race? Industrial Revolution? It all piddled out and now we're so focused on turning a profit and being efficient that no one wants to progress.
We have basically-instant, and extremely cheap, global communication; it's not long ago at all that communicating with someone in another country was horrifically expensive. We have biomedical products that were undreamed of 50 years ago. We have greatly increased human rights and social protections; half of the space race occurred before the US civil rights act, for instance. We have vastly increased economic prosperity, vast improvements in food supply (famine was a hell of a lot more common 50 years ago than now). We have identified hundreds of extra-solar planets; during the space race, and for a long time after, we knew about precisely zero. And so forth.
For that matter, we have far greater access to space; Saturn V was all very shiny and impressive, but it was not a workhorse. The volume of communications, scientific and meteorological satellites, and space probes, launched these days would simply not be feasible with "space race" technology, and most space race technology wasn't even designed for that; it was designed to score points and be quickly scrapped.
These things may not be as flashy as a one-off giant rocket that had 13 cripplingly-expensive launches. They are, however, enormous, dramatic progress.
I remember trying to stay in touch with a friend in Boston while I lived in Australia, I'd pay upwards of $30/hr just to talk on the phone! And that was only ten years ago!!!