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Skywise
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Samara's best friend
Jan 2002
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In the last decades, education and respect has takin a turn for the worst imo. Not so much in the sense of knowledge but more from a ''motivation'' point of view.
It seems that more and more people get less and less motivated in young years. Playing and having fun always comes first. Lets compare education 40 years ago and that of today. It use to be a lot more strict, parents used to be more strict and a lot less attention was brought to teenagers by advertising and the media. Now the kids want this, the kids want that.
It's like they rule the world now, stars are aimed at teenagers, silly hip gangster wannabes are aimed at teenagers, clothes, cars, looks and it's all a game of which will piss farther then the last. And more and more bums seem to be out there.
In schools they try to make education more and more fun. Well I got news for you kid, life ain't only fun and games. And we can notice the change when these kids start working.
I dont know if it's also because now you have to study for 25 years to get a decent job or else you wash dishes 40 hours a week....unless you start your own business. But even if you do, chances are you'll get eaten down by big corporations like Home depot and such. Notice that in the last 10 years, every small hardware store has disapeared.
What's it going to be like in next 40 years if we compare the change we had in the last 40 years? Study for 50 years before you work? How will people be motivated to go to school if they know it will never end and on top of that having the media and advertising companies giving them ''support'' on how life is so hard for a kid? And who in there right mind would want to start a business unless they come up with some sure idea? (and probably because they studied for half a century....)
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:17
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quote:
Originally posted by Skywise
How? Except for the fact that cars were weak and the dash board targeted your forhead if you crashed. Less pollution, no STM, 90% less cancer......Please. And that's not even part of the thread topic. |
TB, pnuenonia, polio, typhoid, cholera, diptheria, etc., etc. The average life expectancy incresaed almost 20 years during the last century. Sure, we get more cancer, cuz we live so much longer now. Food was a lot less safe, although recently poultry has become toxic when uncooked.
Cars are safer, work is safer, planes are safer, our elderly are far less likely to end their days in poverty.
Yeah, a lot of things are new and scary, but that's life in capitalism. It's gonna change, and change fast. Every generation says the children today are lazy slackers who don't know how easy they have things and how school just isn't as rigorous as it used to be. I've heard the same **** since the 70s, and even back then, the Boomers used to talk about how their parents did it to them, and my grandparents said the same thing about their parents. Hell, the Romans said the same thing about their kids.
It's just not true, because if it was, it's been true forever, and then there's no way to explain how civilization ever advanced.
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Riesstiu IV
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Originally posted by Skywise
It was easier then to get started in life then than it is today. |
Oh how I wish to be a factory worker in Detroit circa 1902. How fun it would be to toil in the coal pits for 18 hours a day and be able to afford food for half of my children while having to sell the other children for a decent bottle of whiskey.
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