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Entitlement is probably a huge factor. It confuses me though-wouldn't the parents know better?

 poppa G wrote:
wouldn't the parents know better?

Know better than who? The current way to raise a child is much more tolerant of their behavior and "treat them as individuals"-y than previous.

Kids these days didn't have the dog from Duck Hunt mocking them then they failed. I completely blame it on that.

 mega_bassist wrote:
Kids these days didn't have the dog from Duck Hunt mocking them then they failed. I completely blame it on that.

/WINS THREAD

its the previous generations douchyness carrying on as normal.


douches never think they are douches.

this generation is just as bad as previous ones.


the whole baby boomer gen is just as "entitled" and so on as this generation.

or should the next generation not feel entitled to have at least what the previous generation had? remember, quality of living is going DOWN this generation, so the most recent generation really is getting the shorter end of the stick so to speak.


wish I could find the article right now, but there was a good archeological dig that unearthed some old egytian shrouds that said "kids of this age do not respect their elders as they used to"


its more a generational gap altering perceptions then anything else.

Every generation complains about the next generation.

And the previous one.

And anything. Ever.

It all started going downhill when they said we couldn't ship the kids off to the coal mines any more.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Every generation complains about the next generation.

And the previous one.

And anything. Ever.

But what previous generation gave us Justien Beiber?

Huh?! HUH?!?!?!

"Kids these days have no respect for their elders."

-Socrates

"You cannot trust quotes on the internet"

- Sir Arthur Wellesley

 djones520 wrote:

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Every generation complains about the next generation.

And the previous one.

And anything. Ever.

But what previous generation gave us Justien Beiber?

Huh?! HUH?!?!?!

well his parents were previous generation, and are the ones responsable

this generation didnt make itself ya know....

and self replicating justin beibers is a chilling thought... where is my brain bleach?

You are the reason for douchy-ness.

I mean the universal "You" not you specifically, but since you are part of the Universal "You" I guess I really do mean you.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
"Kids these days have no respect for their elders."

-Socrates

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
- mis-attributed to Socrates
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed

Being serious though, the culture of instant gratification that we have today, it's bound to have some negative consequences.

 Easy E wrote:
You are the reason for douchy-ness.

I mean the universal "You" not you specifically, but since you are part of the Universal "You" I guess I really do mean you.

Im not too big of a douche....

 poppa G wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
You are the reason for douchy-ness.

I mean the universal "You" not you specifically, but since you are part of the Universal "You" I guess I really do mean you.

Im not too big of a douche....

Don't worry. When I say "You" I really mean me. I'm a narcissist that way. Whenever I talk about someone else, I'm really talking about me.

You are so confusing.

"Wibble." - Sir Isaac Newton.

"I'd rather take a bullet to the head than watch any more of this play..." Abe Lincoln

Being young.

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates, c.400BC.

Bitches ain't gak but hoes and tricks - Valerie Solanas

Funny how a thread about douchey-ness became a thread about misattributed quotes.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Bitches ain't gak but hoes and tricks - Valerie Solanas

Funny how a thread about douchey-ness became a thread about misattributed quotes.

Guess it goes to show that everyone's a douche regardless of the generation.

Yep. There's a quote about that, in fact:

"Everyone's a bastard" - Gandi.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
"Kids these days have no respect for their elders."

-Socrates

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
- mis-attributed to Socrates
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed

So Thales said it? Either way, it's been said for a long time that kids today suck, right? More or less?

 kronk wrote:
So Thales said it? Either way, it's been said for a long time that kids today suck, right? More or less?

Probably was one of the first topics on a cave painting

Peanut gallery aside children and teenagers are no different today than they were in the past, however we have moved from a relatively more disciplined society to a less disciplined one, and above all have had changes in technology so fast that a stable generation cannot arise between them.

Both these points require further scrutiny.

As stated levels of discipline is always relative and there is no specifically correct balance. Both more disciplined and less disciplined societies have their advantages and disadvantages; and it is in nature to take forgranted the advantages as inherent to most humans and to highlight the disadvantages as the evils of the current generation.
There is no balance there is no fix, there is only the choice to be wise and patient and both of those virtues come only with time that youth has not had enough of.

The technological problems are more pressing as theoretically these are something we can do something about. Human nature is inherent whereas technology is artificial, it can be improved upon or restricted.
Things are moving too fast that the technological threshold is jumping faster than human generations can account for. A man born in the fifties could cope with the seventies and thus be ready to welcome a next generation into the world with understanding of what the world is like to someone of that age.
Our generations can no longer do this. The differences between the seventies and the nineties that while someone born in the seventies is by no means out of place in the nineties. However the youth of the seventies and the youth of the nineties bear no correlation so that present generation of parents really cannot envision modern youth; and most are not only unaware of this, but would be in rank denial if this truth was ever explained to them.

Fortunately we are at the dawn of a generational shift between a humanity that can envelop its day to day technologies and one that cannot. We proliferate common devices like mobile phones to children which would take a lifetime of study to fully understand. The pyramid of knowledge is now so tall even those who understand scientific realities have to work on base assumptions of people in other fields which are the foundations of their own field of study.
This makes humans a very fragile piece of a technological jungle filled with strange and unfathomable wonders.

This is relevant because from this generation onward until our technological world collapses this basic fact will remain, the technology may and likely will be different, but the impossible being both mundane and freely accessible to children will be a constant. Kids dont just get books or boats, kites or balls anymore, they get next generation electronic gizmos which are each the product of generations of research in numerous fields and are push button easy to operate. It wont really matter what the gizmos of the next generation will be, they will remain outside the reach of understanding because people are just people and in thus the technological generation gap will likely close.

Lack of authoritarian socialization, wide-spread broadband internet, facebook.

Kids are growing up in an age where being rude gakkers to people is hailed as the greatest showing of comedic skill.

"hur dur I troled you lololol"

Also facebook. I've really started to hate it. It's making me realize how many of the people I know are capable of being extremely petty and stupid.

Sooooo yeah. I'd go up to places like Anchorage to get away from all the stupid, but those damn shark vampires just showing up and killing everyone is pretty inconvenient.

 Necroshea wrote:
Kids are growing up in an age where being rude gakkers to people is hailed as the greatest showing of comedic skill...

That's common in a lot of friendship in all ages a lot of friends like to take the piss out on each other, like my brother shares racist jokes with his black friend but is he sincere about the racism in the jokes? Of course not.

Man, a lot of people ITT have completely bought into the idea that kids are worse at all.

What's worse is that most of you are pretty young, so you're comparing "kids these days" to kids in a day that you never experienced. You weren't there, how do you know they were better back then? Are you basing it on TV and movies from the time? Because if so, lol.

mega_bassist wrote:Kids these days didn't have the dog from Duck Hunt mocking them then they failed. I completely blame it on that.

This.

Technically I am a "kid these days", but I did play duck hunt, and most of the people I get along with are from older generations. Coincidence? I think not.