My Generation

Conspire · #1 09-25-2007, 06:17 PM

Im not sure if a thread like this has been done before, but I cannot be stopped. What are people my age doing wrong, would you classify us as a lazier generation because of all the technology we have grown up with? Many of us have grown up in households where both parents work and are never home. Media is everywhere and it disgusts me how much people my age can be influenced by it, it is especially worse for the younger kids (14-17). I would say a large percentage has easy access to the internet, but how many of us are actually learning anything?

I could not conjure up a good OP, so basically what are my generations strength`s and weaknesses? Respect is appreciated, lets try to be civil if anything controversial is written.

Kimbell175113 · #2 09-25-2007, 06:30 PM

Strength number one: google

A lot of people don't get it, but this has really changed the world and the way questions are answered. I honestly feel like with google (and to a lesser extent, wiki and snopes and others) plus my reasoning abilities, I am up there with the smartest people who have ever lived, like there's nothing I can't figure out.

Now, if we could only get people to use it, and use it intelligently.

katyseagull · #3 09-25-2007, 07:18 PM

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What are people my age doing wrong, would you classify us as a lazier generation because of all the technology we have grown up with? Many of us have grown up in households where both parents work and are never home.

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What do you mean what are people your age doing wrong? (how old are you again? as i recall you're really young.)
You mean with respect to work ethics and employment? And yes I would classify your generation as lazy. Lazy and disenchanted.

dizong · #4 09-25-2007, 07:18 PM

Strength: More overachievers, ambitious than my generation (graduated HS 1994). It seems there are more gung-ho kids out there, probably driven by their parents to a large extent... Of course, this can't apply to everyone as every generation has its proportion of slackers...

Weakness: Earlier loss of innocence. Seems like you guys are adults much earlier in your upbringing. Too serious too early.

Not sure if these assessments are even remotely accurate, but it's what I perceive...

The X-Factor · #5 09-25-2007, 07:27 PM

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Weakness: Earlier loss of innocence. Seems like you guys are adults much earlier in your upbringing. Too serious too early.

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Lets not forget about women too. I think they too grow up much earlier now and I am 24 saying this. Girl do not look the same as they did 10 years ago when I was growing up.

Conspire · #6 09-25-2007, 07:35 PM

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What are people my age doing wrong, would you classify us as a lazier generation because of all the technology we have grown up with? Many of us have grown up in households where both parents work and are never home.

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What do you mean what are people your age doing wrong? (how old are you again? as i recall you're really young.)
You mean with respect to work ethics and employment? And yes I would classify your generation as lazy. Lazy and disenchanted.

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Im 23, and I dont necessarily mean whats wrong, any opinion on what is good or bad about my generation is what im interested in. Dont just stick to the few random thoughts I had, if you see a positive or a negative please feel free to share it.

I kinda made a crappy starter subject but from some of the posts made already you guys understand what im trying say.

Kimbell175113 · #7 09-25-2007, 07:37 PM

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You mean with respect to work ethics and employment? And yes I would classify your generation as lazy. Lazy and disenchanted.

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If you listen to its elders, this is true of every single generation ever, no?

daveT · #8 09-25-2007, 08:22 PM

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Weakness: Earlier loss of innocence. Seems like you guys are adults much earlier in your upbringing. Too serious too early.

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Lets not forget about women too. I think they too grow up much earlier now and I am 24 saying this. Girl do not look the same as they did 10 years ago when I was growing up.

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This is nojoke. Many of you guys look older than I do (thinly veiled brag)

The thing that strikes me about you guys(I am 29 next mth.) is that you guys aren't social. I have to interact with your generation at the casino. Some dude/chick walks into a casino with an IPod. Us older people are talking. They look at us like we are crazy.

I remember a thread on this forum where some guy was asking advice of how to proceed to talk to a girl, and one girl piped in that it was good that he didn't call!

For the good, you are all raised on the computer, but I think that the above is a sad effect of technology.

My generation was raised on the cusp of pc's rise in popularity, so we aren't influenced by it. TBH, we are a little frightened of it's effect because of seeing your generation.

Blarg · #9 09-25-2007, 09:00 PM

Good post on the different social habits. This has been a trend that's ongoing for some time, and it's not on the wane yet. People, both young and old, don't belong to as many clubs, and take less interest in their communities. Parents used to kick kids out of the house to make them go socialize even if they didn't feel like it. Now it seems that the least you can do for them is give them an expensive perfect coccoon in their room -- DVD player, t.v., nintendo or whatever, often computer and internet connection, stereo. Really, with a toilet and a fridge there, they'd almost never have to come out, might never be asked to, and might not be missed. It has become easier to get by reasonably happily without being a social person at all. And it has become more acceptable parenting to not worry so much about it.

Also, social consciousness seems to have dropped off. Now you hear people talking a lot more about their "lifestyle." That does lead, to the good, toward being concentrated one one's career and directed. But it leads also, to the bad, to being politically indifferent, which is a danger to democracy far more than any number of radicals or loonies, over-excited kids, or verminous scumbags could be. I'm not optimistic about America maintaining its freedoms in the future. It could interfere with someone's lifestyle.

Also, the influence of gangster this and that, and all the posing, complete selfishness, and arrogance that goes with it, into the youth culture has demeaned and degraded general discourse. Gangsters are douchebags of the highest order, and that anyone would want to imitate them in any way or incorporate any of their real or imagined values and outlook into their own, shows how little social novelty often really offers, and even how regressive it can be.

I used to worry that Americans might destroy the world. We were certainly enormously destructive and short-sighted. Now I wonder if we might just let it be destroyed, because we have no vision at all, and are becoming so enormously indifferent that we have no real standards or goals anyway and just can't be bothered.

Kimbell175113 · #10 09-25-2007, 09:18 PM

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It has become easier to get by reasonably happily without being a social person at all.

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Do you see this as a strictly bad thing, or are there some positives?

(I'm sorry for the short un-Lounge-like responses, but I'm trying to extract untainted information. I am one of these lazy anti-social kids, you see, and am trying to get across some discussion without injecting my own biases.)