Quote (Tarisus @ Jun 28 2022 01:12am)

I don’t think that’s the topic here. But new generation is in fact weak. Knowing the evidences and the experiences I’ve been through. Young minds are way more susceptible to addictions than the older people. And addictions make you WEAK.

Present some scientific proof that young minds are just as strong as rest of us.

Go watch Simon Sinek and the millennial question. That’s just the surface of things. Young generations are so sad that they are dating less than the previous gens.

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Jun 27 2022 05:05pm)

and how does god communicate their standards/expectations?

Quote (Lvivz @ Jun 27 2022 05:39pm)

No its not a law, and in regards to humanity and society where there are tons of dynamic factors at play and things you cannot explain/be ready for, Matthews effect only works well in a hollow stagnated system in regards to society/humans e.i dictatorships and even there constant changes happen.
In society with healthy competition it all very much levels out at one point or another.

Quote (Aristotle @ 400BC)

“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
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They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”

Quote (Horace @ 100BC)

“The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.”

Quote (Book III of Odes @ 20BC)

Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

Quote (Yoshida Kenko @ 1330)

“Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased … The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say ‘raise the carriage shafts’ or ‘trim the lamp wick,’ but people today say ‘raise it’ or ‘trim it.’ When they should say, ‘Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!’ they say, ‘Torches! Let’s have some light!’”

Quote (Thomas Barnes @ 1624)

“Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie . . . the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.”

Quote (Robert Russel @ 1695)

“… I find by sad Experience how the Towns and Streets are filled with lewd wicked Children, and many Children as they have played about the Streets have been heard to curse and swear and call one another Nick-names, and it would grieve ones Heart to hear what bawdy and filthy Communications proceeds from the Mouths of such…”

Quote (unknown @ 1771)

“Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt…”

Quote (Enos Hitchcock @ 1790)

“The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth…”

Quote (Anthony Cooper @ 1843)

“…a fearful multitude of untutored savages… [boys] with dogs at their heels and other evidence of dissolute habits…[girls who] drive coal-carts, ride astride upon horses, drink, swear, fight, smoke, whistle, and care for nobody…the morals of children are tenfold worse than formerly.”

Quote (Portsmouth Evening News @ 1936)

“Probably there is no period in history in which young people have given such emphatic utterance to a tendency to reject that which is old and to wish for that which is new.”

Quote (Falkirk Heral @ 1951)

“Many [young people] were so pampered nowadays that they had forgotten that there was such a thing as walking, and they made automatically for the buses… unless they did something, the future for walking was very poor indeed.”

Quote (Sioux @ 28 Jun 2022 11:47)

None of you are original. None of you are right. Old people have been bitching about young people for 3000 years and society hasn't collapsed.

Quote (InsaneBobb @ 27 Jun 2022 22:14)

I ask again, what are you talking about? Our version of "poverty" would make you the richest man in the region in any third world nation. Over $700 Billion was spent last year to provide free healthcare to those in poverty, and everyone has access to schools. As for careers, it takes a lot of work to first qualify, and then obtain, and then maintain a career. Some people are weak-minded, and are not willing to put in that work. Isn't that sort of what this topic is about?

Now, if you want to talk about investment groups and billionaires buying up massive swathes of farmland, residential real-estate, etc. and actively preventing regular people from gaining access to these things, we could have a real discussion. It's a fair point and I suspect we'd agree more than we disagree.

Nobody is denying that life isn't fair. We already knew that. The steps required to make life fair are authoritarian and anti-liberty in nature. I'm telling you flat out that I'm perfectly fine with the fact that you support socialist policy in your nation. Feel free. Your nation is sovereign and can do what it wants. What I'm curious of is why you would promote revolution in the United States when you do not live in the United States? Can you please show me on the doll where the US has hurt you?

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Jun 28 2022 01:47pm)

Could have stopped after the second period lol

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ 28 Jun 2022 10:51)

Better than third world isn't really the standard I'd strive for as the richest nation on earth. You guys live in squalor compared to OECD comparables.

Quote (InsaneBobb @ 28 Jun 2022 14:00)

Then don't move here. Simple. That still doesn't justify promoting a revolution. Revolutions destroy cities, revolutions destroy wealth, and revolutions end up killing a lot of people, especially people who simply want to go about their day, and not be involved in other people's raving and ranting.

Seems to me, if you believe the people of the US live in such squalor, encouraging acts that would make us poorer and less capable of providing for ourselves is rather counter-intuitive, no?

I'm not shocked though. Again, this topic is about the latest generations being weak-minded. The weak-minded response to any given scenario is, "If I don't get what I want, I'm going to burn down that which I didn't build, and kill those who say different, until I get my way." Note, that is also direct tyranny of the worst form. :)