But I’m really happy I’m not part of this generation either:
This is particularly distressing, Sax says, because the culture youths learn from one another is one of disrespect and indignity. Sax finds it in popular TV shows such as Dog with a Blog, Jessie, and Liv and Maddie, which display adults as clueless and incompetent, as well as hip-hop music and pornography (which boys view avidly).
These are the creeps who produced the weirdos of the previous post.
Yeah, I’ve never understood this logic. My favorite one is about children’s safety. ‘Oh, we used to ride our bikes without helmets with not a care in the world. Look at what the world has come to now. Generation of pussies, blah blah’.
Oh, I must have missed the day when american children drafted and passed those laws in congress mandating safety measures for themselves. Or the law that forbids them to go outside without wearing at least 3 sweaters. Yup, entirely their doing.
Average age of lawmakers in the US is 60 years. But yeah, everything is the younger generations’ fault. 🙂
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There are few things that offend Americans more than pointing out the connection between parenting and its results.
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Content warnings are the old tv ratings are the old music ratings are the old MPAA ratings. I remember when tv and music did not have ratings affixed to them.
Sometimes I think it’s just as much for parents as it is for children. My parents get very uncomfortable when they see explicit sex or language in movies or television and are happiest when they’re watching documentaries or movies made under the Hayes Code or before 1970.
Twelve year olds are not making tv shows, and if you can’t deal with the Disney channel you’re doing something wrong. Adults avidly move to different neighborhoods so they can be surrounded by people “like them” and so their kids can go to “good schools” (read: white/homogeneous) and they vote on ordinances and have many practices (redlining, HoAs, NIMBYism) to keep the neighborhoods the same. Businesses routinely engage in age discrimination (“we only called you for this interview because you are a recent graduate”) and have all kinds of code words (“we want a culture fit”) so they can hire the exact same people they’ve always hired. I worked with people who had no compunction about bashing younger people to my face and then acted all surprised when I preferred my own company to theirs. Who came up with the concept of grouping kids by age in school? Not the kids! And these idiots act like Disney and social media are causing people to flock to homogeneous groups. They all learn it from you.
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