The Next Generation: Are they Entitled?
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I dunno. Maybe they have a good reason to feel entitled.
Think about it. We live in a world with tons of unemployed people with degrees. Every one of our generations recently was told that education and hard work would bring us a good life, and with the recession, plenty of us aren't getting what we worked so hard for. It used to be said that if you didn't study, you'd end up working in mcdonalds. Now if you study really hard, you might just get into mcdonalds. Or they'll say you're "overqualified"...
But that's always been the way. Generation after generation, always thinking the one after them is the one that makes it all fall apart, never stopping to realise that maybe, just maybe, we made them this way, and their entitlement, or rebellion, or hippy ideals, or rock and roll music are just reactions to the ills of the last generation.
Think about it. We live in a world with tons of unemployed people with degrees. Every one of our generations recently was told that education and hard work would bring us a good life, and with the recession, plenty of us aren't getting what we worked so hard for. It used to be said that if you didn't study, you'd end up working in mcdonalds. Now if you study really hard, you might just get into mcdonalds. Or they'll say you're "overqualified"...
But that's always been the way. Generation after generation, always thinking the one after them is the one that makes it all fall apart, never stopping to realise that maybe, just maybe, we made them this way, and their entitlement, or rebellion, or hippy ideals, or rock and roll music are just reactions to the ills of the last generation.
"Has our political correctness gone out of control?"
Right-o, good thing that generally useful clue to stop reading arrived as late as it did...
But it did, none the less, and I'll toss in my thought on the topic as well. Certainly, not everyone can be a winner. But not winning does not make you utterly useless, either. Middle ground is, as usual, most desirable here. Competition should be allowed to be just that. But not everything must be competitive.
As for the next generation, it does not matter what they do. We'll still see them as shit and dream about the good ol' days. They'll do the same. It's how it works. Presumably, it's one way human beings cope with change.
Right-o, good thing that generally useful clue to stop reading arrived as late as it did...
But it did, none the less, and I'll toss in my thought on the topic as well. Certainly, not everyone can be a winner. But not winning does not make you utterly useless, either. Middle ground is, as usual, most desirable here. Competition should be allowed to be just that. But not everything must be competitive.
As for the next generation, it does not matter what they do. We'll still see them as shit and dream about the good ol' days. They'll do the same. It's how it works. Presumably, it's one way human beings cope with change.
If you were trying to be cheeky by providing a bad example of using the word entitled inappropriately then you've just turned the irony meter up to 11... because you just used it in an appropriate manner. "Think that they're" is the quantifier.OneCatch said:
If someone BELIVES themselves to be entitled it is them acting spoiled. If someone IS entitled it means they do actually deserve/stand to inherit something.
That being said, I feel our society as a whole is becoming far more "soft" in the West and it is not in our best interests. Many decisions are being made that think about someone's feelings more than the actual practical results.
The schooling system is a total farce. Kids learn stuff but they're seldom ENGAGED in what they're learning.
I've learned more from video games and my hobbies in the last 3 years than I learned in the entirety of my primary and secondary education. I have forgotten most of what I did in my last 3 years of school... and that was the stuff I was graded on. I remembered it because I was going to be graded on it and then I forgot it when I was no longer going to be graded on it.
That's not learning, that's temporary storage of information.
Children today are SMART. They're starting to question the questions. They're wondering about the practicality of it all. The internet allows us to have essentially the entire sum of human knowledge at our fingertips, if we want to know something we can just find it out very quickly. There's no need to store knowledge in our minds that we don't use frequently and don't care about.
Children are being taught to KNOW, not to THINK. If you do not encourage rationality in schools you will simply have irrational people leaving them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADUDr. Cakey said:Yeah, fuck Picard!
Oh, wrong next generation.
Yeah, fuck Jaden!
No, still wrong next generation. I guess I'm closer, at least.
Oh well, here, have some xkcd:
Don't forget 90's nick!
Yeah most people have already said what needs to be said this thread is kinda pointless now. Though I'm sure you were a little shit head before because all of us were. You can't be some kind of God and never been like this before.
What? For real? No, I was born when I was 18. Was never a kid, nope nope nope.Wickatricka said:
Though, admittedly, when I was a kid we didn't call teachers "sluts" to their face. And besides, whether or not the next generation is worse than the current one, largely depends on the current one. Parenting and all that stuff.
Vegosiux said:
Called my teacher a ***** when I was in fourth grade. Only because she singled me out for that whole year and I became her fucking punching bag of verbal abuse. Seriously sometimes the kids are right in what they say. Would not call them "entitled" for calling a teacher a slut. (By the way that's not the right use of the word).
You're never right in use gendered insults like that though. I can understand swearing at teachers (there's a fair few I knew that shouldn't have had jobs), but "slut"? No.Wickatricka said:
thaluikhain said:
How is slut a gendered insult? You can call a guy a slut just no one ever does.
Well...yes...because it's only ever used about women, and to attack them for behaviour praised in men.Wickatricka said:
An insult only aimed at one gender, about something which is only an insult when levelled at that gender?Wickatricka said:
How much more gendered can an insult get?
That about sums up my feelings on the topic.Moth_Monk said:
It's just more meaningless buzzword bingo.
Fun fact: People act entitled every damn day, and they aren't always in the wrong.
I'm feeling entitled to eating this doughnut right now. Why? BECAUSE I FUCKING PAID FOR IT.
Seriously, I just want someone big on the internet to run a PSA about the constant misuse of the subject of 'entitlement' (and all related misuse), or at least hang a virtual sign on the Internet's proverbial doorstep for a year with this message:
Dear Internet, please realize that the subjects of entitlement and false sense of entitlement are not the same thing.
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE SO STOP TRYING TO USE THEM AS SUCH.
thaluikhain said:
That's your opinion. A guy could be called a slut and be very offended by it and no its not aimed at one gender.
Well, excepting how it works in the really real world in the overwhelming majority of times it's used as an insult, I guess.Wickatricka said: