This generation isn't stupid, we're just different. (house, punk, careers)

Wifey Boozer · 08-20-2008, 07:28 PM

^ Aye. The heart has gone out of everything. The No Child Left Behind thing pisses me off because it blocks students in with each other when some should clearly be learning at a different place, whether it be higher or lower. There's no one on one nowadays, all blocked and whatnot. This is maybe why our generation is more apathetic - they're stoned on boredom. School constantly ramming bull**** down our throats, we don't have time to expand our minds. The system nowadays does concentrate more on having the highest this and the highest that and they've forgotten the true purpose of education.

lucifer_sam · 08-20-2008, 07:45 PM

Go to skool lern shapes and colors and post on music forrums ftw.

Double X · 08-20-2008, 07:54 PM

I like our education system. My guidance counselors and the schedule setting machines are retarded...but the actual classes are very good.

lucifer_sam · 08-20-2008, 08:01 PM

I had two teachers in high school that were actually good. TWO. Out of thirty.

Double X · 08-21-2008, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

I had two teachers in high school that were actually good. TWO. Out of thirty.

Aren't you in college now? The freshman professors who teach general studies are always garbage anyways. I had probably one teacher who sucked but it was a art class, and 3 who were very good.

sweet_nothing · 08-20-2008, 08:12 PM

we may not be the most intelligent but we is the smartest

joyboyo53 · 08-21-2008, 11:31 AM

People of the younger generation are almost always smarter, and people of the older generation are almost always more wise.

Young people almost always think older people are out to get them, they just want them to avoid the same mistakes they made.

Old people almost always think younger people are stupid, they forget what its like to be ignorant and not set in their ways.

The first step to understanding eachother is to listen to one another, not write them off.

Young people have no idea what it was like to grow up in the 'days of old', and old people have no idea what it is like to grow up in the 'days of new'; think 'Apples and Oranges'.

For the record, the unfan is a punk so it makes sense that you feel like old people berate you... its likely deserved.

cardboard adolescent · 08-21-2008, 12:03 PM

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So, I noticed this odd running theme when conversing with older people about how this generation (By that I mean the 20 somethings and 30 somethings) are less intelligent than their generation is. So I decided to bring up this discussion with my mom where we discussed the differences in generation and it seems that older people have this perception based on some lapses in knowledge about things that really just don't apply to us.

Of course we're not knowledgeable on every topic because sometimes we just don't care. It isn't that we're less intelligent, its that we're more apathetic. And I think that it is largely due to the internet. I mean, we don't necessarily need to know everything about all the social mannerisms, geography, or traditional business models because for the first time in history all societies are one and the same and located at the same place. It used to be that we learned a certain set of manners, but can that same set of manners really be applied now? Probably not when you consider that the social norms in Germany, China, and Sweden are all different and I can now sign on at any hour and talk to people from all 3 places almost as if they were in my living room. It used to be that business had to be done a specific way, but with the internet marketing and commerce are really different, especially in media based businesses.

With that said, does anyone feel this generation is highly misunderstood because we recognize how much different the internet makes society as a whole or even that the internet as a whole is a new sort of society in and of itself?

I think most people in our generation are nihilists and just don't realize it yet. We live in a world of hyper-simulation where everything we do almost screams its meaninglessness at us. Our parents were probably the last generation to have the comfortable illusion of progress, and now they stare confusedly at us while we beat our heads against the wall.

Son of JayJamJah · 08-21-2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

I think most people in our generation are nihilists and just don't realize it yet. We live in a world of hyper-simulation where everything we do almost screams its meaninglessness at us. Our parents were probably the last generation to have the comfortable illusion of progress, and now they stare confusedly at us while we beat our heads against the wall.

There is an element of truth to that but I think we're along ways away from being a Nihilistic society. Socially we're more nihilistic and there is an undeniable element of instant gratification that is more prevalent today but it's still a compassionate society on the whole.

Wifey Boozer · 08-21-2008, 01:39 PM

^ I don't think we're compassionate... not as we were back in the day. Violence is more publicized today, so people's faith in humanity and trust in strangers are declining - I don't know whether it's good or bad... but bystander-apathy is at it's all time high. There was an old man dying on the sidewalk in NYC, this was in the news recently, and people just stopped and stared, walked over him, and took pictures with their cellphones.

08-20-2008, 07:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Wifey Boozer Meanie McFeany Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Troy side'ah the dirt, NY Posts: 455	^ Aye. The heart has gone out of everything. The No Child Left Behind thing pisses me off because it blocks students in with each other when some should clearly be learning at a different place, whether it be higher or lower. There's no one on one nowadays, all blocked and whatnot. This is maybe why our generation is more apathetic - they're stoned on boredom. School constantly ramming bull** down our throats, we don't have time to expand our minds. The system nowadays does concentrate more on having the highest this and the highest that and they've forgotten the true purpose of education. __________________ ... Stalin had a FANTASTIC** moustache. Formerly known as the Prime Minister of Spain. [backintheubbr]

08-20-2008, 07:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	Go to skool lern shapes and colors and post on music forrums ftw. __________________ first.am

08-20-2008, 08:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	I had two teachers in high school that were actually good. TWO. Out of thirty. __________________ first.am

08-21-2008, 01:39 PM	#10 (permalink)
Wifey Boozer Meanie McFeany Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Troy side'ah the dirt, NY Posts: 455	^ I don't think we're compassionate... not as we were back in the day. Violence is more publicized today, so people's faith in humanity and trust in strangers are declining - I don't know whether it's good or bad... but bystander-apathy is at it's all time high. There was an old man dying on the sidewalk in NYC, this was in the news recently, and people just stopped and stared, walked over him, and took pictures with their cellphones. __________________ ... Stalin had a *FANTASTIC* moustache. Formerly known as the Prime Minister of Spain. [backintheubbr]

08-20-2008, 07:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Double X sleepe Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: boston Posts: 1,140	I like our education system. My guidance counselors and the schedule setting machines are retarded...but the actual classes are very good.

08-21-2008, 11:31 AM	#7 (permalink)
joyboyo53 down the rabbit hole Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: the mountain called monkey Posts: 764	People of the younger generation are almost always smarter, and people of the older generation are almost always more wise. Young people almost always think older people are out to get them, they just want them to avoid the same mistakes they made. Old people almost always think younger people are stupid, they forget what its like to be ignorant and not set in their ways. The first step to understanding eachother is to listen to one another, not write them off. Young people have no idea what it was like to grow up in the 'days of old', and old people have no idea what it is like to grow up in the 'days of new'; think 'Apples and Oranges'. For the record, the unfan is a punk so it makes sense that you feel like old people berate you... its likely deserved.