Very well said.ROG62 » 23 Feb 2023, 9:47 am » wrote: ↑ It started in our generation (60's) with the "Peace, Love, Dope" movement...while still small, it steadily grew...their kids became the "we're all winners" generation where everyone got participation trophies...this is where it really started to escalate...being responsible for your actions went out the window...enter social media...now they don't communicate face to face, and when they do, they can't handle it...
The gubment, in all their glory, has perpetuated the degradation. While I agree, there are people in need, they've made it so there are generations of lazy unproductive people with the answer is to throw more money at them. Our education system has failed miserably...we are producing more idiots than ever before. They leave school with zero life skills, can hardly read or write or balance a checkbook...
Technology is a double edged sword...with each generation, the drugs have become more powerful, cheaper and a cornucopia of variety enhancing the criminal element and cash flow. The internet has become the bane of society. While it's great for resourcing, the social part is a detriment. People can say whatever they want without ramifications...now step out into the real world, they say the same ****, someone's feelings get bent, and their first move is to kill..whatever happened to a good old knockdown, drag out schoolyard brawl to "settle our differences"? Now the answer is to destroy them publicly or kill them. These are the snowflakes.
The mental state of kids these days are definitely in peril. The latest report shows how bad it really is... Half of them are depressed with a quarter thinking about suicide... what. the. ****.
Sure... he's only been a career politician in DC for 50+ years.
Like I said, I don't know that we can fix it at this point. The collapse may be imminent... but it certainly doesn't mean we don't keep trying. Does it?maineman » 23 Feb 2023, 9:50 am » wrote: ↑ The overriding question is, however.... If you ARE right, and if society has raised self-entitled, weak willed, narcissists for decades, how in the world can we ever fix it?
If we really are as bad as you say, then I wasn't far from wrong yesterday when I posted, "Après nous, le déluge", was I?
You don't.RedheadedStranger » 23 Feb 2023, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑ Sure... he's only been a career politician in DC for 50+ years.
If that's not living in a bubble, I don't know what is.
Another stellar rebuttal from the veggie man.
You don't.RedheadedStranger » 23 Feb 2023, 10:47 am » wrote: ↑ Another stellar rebuttal from the veggie man.
I really don't know why I even try...
Again... the conversation you stumbled into has NOTHING to do with Donald Trump you idiot.Blackvegetable » 23 Feb 2023, 10:51 am » wrote: ↑ You don't.
The **** you spew reflects no thought.
As evidenced by your stubborn unwillingness to recognize your hypocrisy.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
The **** you spew is what others thought possible if everyone just ignored what isn't going to happen. Evolving doesn't exceed the time each reproduciton has living in the moment here specifically occupying space as ancestrally displaced now.Blackvegetable » 23 Feb 2023, 10:51 am » wrote: ↑ You don't.
The **** you spew reflects no thought.
As evidenced by your stubborn unwillingness to recognize your hypocrisy.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
....which brings us back to the question of what we do? Is the only answer a mass awakening of parental awareness and a concurrent mass assumption of firmer, less coddling parenting, or is there some way that society, through government and schools, can assist parents in some substantive, effective way?RedheadedStranger » 23 Feb 2023, 10:45 am » wrote: ↑ Like I said, I don't know that we can fix it at this point. The collapse may be imminent... but it certainly doesn't mean we don't keep trying. Does it?
Government schools are part of the problem, not the solution.maineman » 23 Feb 2023, 11:21 am » wrote: ↑ ....which brings us back to the question of what we do? Is the only answer a mass awakening of parental awareness and a concurrent mass assumption of firmer, less coddling parenting, or is there some way that society, through government and schools, can assist parents in some substantive, effective way?
why signalling out parental awareness, for every parent there are more siblings never had children. what about sibling of grandparent generation only been aunts or uncles never leaving cousins to parents 2nd cousins to grandchildren.maineman » 23 Feb 2023, 11:21 am » wrote: ↑ ....which brings us back to the question of what we do? Is the only answer a mass awakening of parental awareness and a concurrent mass assumption of firmer, less coddling parenting, or is there some way that society, through government and schools, can assist parents in some substantive, effective way?
that's exactly why we were armed.ROG62 » 23 Feb 2023, 9:58 am » wrote: ↑ well, better to be prepared...it wouldn't be a good look if you were taken captive...![]()
some kids might seem to have one very harmless intent (hunting with their uncle after school, for example) and actually have a much more sinister intent.ROG62 » 23 Feb 2023, 9:55 am » wrote: ↑ It didn't bother me then and it wouldn't bother me now...it's got to do with intent and why did they bring it...
maineman » 23 Feb 2023, 11:40 am » wrote: ↑ some kids might seem to have one very harmless intent (hunting with their uncle after school, for example) and actually have a much more sinister intent.
I can honestly say that I do not remember ANY school shootings when I was growing up.
I don't think the government raises any kid without the acquiescence of the parent.RedheadedStranger » 23 Feb 2023, 11:27 am » wrote: ↑ Government schools are part of the problem, not the solution.
It has to be grass roots, which is starting to happen... only we now have a governing body that wants to label concerned parents as "domestic terrorists" and are trying to shut them down.
The Government has been raising our children for far to long, and it needs to stop. The fruits of their involvement are what we're seeing in society today.
moron
Nor do I.maineman » 23 Feb 2023, 11:40 am » wrote: ↑ some kids might seem to have one very harmless intent (hunting with their uncle after school, for example) and actually have a much more sinister intent.
I can honestly say that I do not remember ANY school shootings when I was growing up.
It is however quite true that dumbduck is a moron and a jerk.
Xavier_Onassis » 23 Feb 2023, 11:54 am » wrote: ↑ It is however quite true that dumbduck is a moron and a jerk.
He is such a cowardly jerk that he refuses to admit that he is dumbduck.
A cowardly, moronic jerk and a huge waste of innocent pixels.