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> the youth in this country are seriously lost When you were a kid, don’t you think your parents and grandparents said the same thing?
by shermantanktop 3y ago
> the youth in this country are seriously lost
When you were a kid, don’t you think your parents and grandparents said the same thing?
- thepasswordis 3y agoSounds like they were right. The youth at that point was lost, and are now raising people who will literally burn down a waymo for fun, or because of some horrifically ignorant idea about fairness.
- hot_gril 3y agoMy parents, who are X or boomer (honestly idk), don't complain about gen Z, which I'm in. They criticize millennials, which I agree with. And kids today most likely have millennial parents. I don't think it's that big of a deal in the long run, though.
- hot_gril 3y agoMy parents and grandparents actually never said that.
- yareal 3y ago[dead]
- mise_en_place 3y agoThey may have. That being said I don’t recall ever defacing private property at that age, even while under the influence of several substances.
- subtra3t 3y agoPerhaps not you, but maybe some other members of your generation. And maybe your (grand)parents might have interpreted the very act of your being "under the influence of several substances" as a symptom of their culture being ruined.
- mise_en_place 3y agoI am unsure of the point you are trying to make. You seem to be excusing the defacement of private property. Have you ever been in a fight, out of curiosity?
- subtra3t 3y agoI am not excusing it at all. I meant to say that "culture ruin" means different things to different generations (and somtimes different people in the same generation as well). And I don't see how your question has anything to do with the discussion at hand, but I have been in a fight.
- mise_en_place 3y agoI was asking because those who have never been involved in violence, that is to say, insulated from violence, may treat it lightly. Civility arises not out of weakness or fake niceness, but from the reality that violence can lead to the loss of life. Culture ruin may mean different things to different people, but we cannot excuse violence, and excessive violence and defacement of private property is a universal symptom of cultural ruin.