Post: #26

Boomers were shit parents.
Now their kids are parents.

Or even more broadly:

Kids without parents who pass on manners, teach skills or foster an interest in learning
+ Lousy school systems dumbed down with Frankfurt School groupthink
+ Submerged into a social/media culture where low culture entertainment, shoddy journalism and advertising are indistinguishable to them
+ electronic geegaws that cut them off from reality, further making them social retards
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= Idiots.

Post: #27

My generation is a tub of shit-bags wearing snapbacks and reciting "Yolo" like Drake tells them. It's funny, because in high school girls are attracted to these guys because they see them as having some kind of status because they mold to popular culture. Once they get out, they start to see there is far better quality out there.

Post: #28

Because their time is wasted on idle nonsense. A significant portion of the current generation (in America) prides itself on living in the moment and changing directions as the wind dictates. Familiar voices incessantly buzz in your ear, "Mentos: The Freshmaker." Radio stations and entertainment culture reprioritize the values of the youth, whom now focus their energy into worthless pursuits. The new religion in the west is hedonism. Of course, the ones affected are usually the uneducated. But I've known plenty of people with ambition who've succumbed due to societal pressure and small-picture thoughts. It's even starting to bleed into other world cultures, surprisingly enough.

Post: #29

The younger generation isn't any dumber. You're just forgetting what raging imbeciles we all were at their ages.

Post: #30

A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century.

Post: #31

(05-22-2013 09:47 PM)kickboxer Wrote:  

This kid is from my HOOD. West Palm Beach REPRESENT!!!!

Post: #32

(05-25-2013 07:35 PM)Captain Ahab Wrote:  This kid is from my HOOD. West Palm Beach REPRESENT!!!!

Stop by and slap that shit out of that kid's parents.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #33

(06-14-2013 10:31 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

(05-25-2013 07:35 PM)Captain Ahab Wrote:  This kid is from my HOOD. West Palm Beach REPRESENT!!!!

Stop by and slap that shit out of that kid's parents.

There's so much grandma can do.

Post: #34

These western kids are being born into a world where every last thing is done for them, or at least made so easy, that they can do it without having to think, in any way. They have, literally, no idea how to survive outside of the comfort of their own homes. Take away the "creature comforts" our generation loves so much, and they'd die within a week or 2. At the rate we're chewing through energy, and with dissent spread towards nuclear energy (even when it's a far safer, cleaner, and better in every possible way, method of harnessing energy), we're going to run out of resources to consistently power our civilisation pretty soon - and most likely before we get to the point of stealing resources from other planets.

What do you think happens at this point?

All of these people with their vast knowledge of internet cats, and the latest TV series are going to start to panic. Absolute pandemonium will ensue. Half of the male population will die out within months (men will, inevitably, protect most of the attractive females, I suspect). The remaining population will most likely be the military super powers, the industrial super powers, their kin and security squads, and, lastly, the true survivors. Of course, for the rich and powerful, life won't change much at all, except they'll be bored all day. Without a world to destroy, the signs of serious mental illness will probably come to light very quickly. They won't last very long, I don't think, as money will quickly become absolutely useless; at which point, they'll become the easiest of pickings.

The real survivors, that can defend themselves, that know how to communicate, know how to fuck, know how to look after themselves with natural resources, that can work a crowd in their favour, and that still retain the animalistic instincts they were born with, these are the men who will continue to survive. The whole race will be effectively reset, and we'll begin again. Hopefully this time around we won't fuck it up, and hopefully the militaries won't turn the entire world into a war zone and destroy everything; not just each other.

Of course, this is all speculation, but relevant to the OP. Each generation seems dumber, because they know less about the things we learned, and more about completely different things, that probably weren't even things when we were their ages. We need to make the decision ourselves to decide what knowledge is most important to us. When someone up top makes these decisions for us, you really have to wonder what the motivation is, behind the particulars of what kids are taught these days. Something like 46% (I forget the exact stat) of Americans didn't even care when they found out their phone calls are being monitored. Maybe I should throw on a tin foil hat, but fuck, that seems a tad off to me.

Post: #35

(06-14-2013 11:36 PM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:  

(06-14-2013 10:31 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

(05-25-2013 07:35 PM)Captain Ahab Wrote:  This kid is from my HOOD. West Palm Beach REPRESENT!!!!

Stop by and slap that shit out of that kid's parents.

There's so much grandma can do.

I suppose what you meant to say is that there's only so much grandma can do? Am I reading that wrong?

Sorry if I am, but just in case, I'm not buying that, Man. We're talking about a seven-year-old kid here that's worried about "doing hood rat things with his friends." It sounds like he lives with his parents still, as he stole the rig because his mom yelled at him.

Any way you swing it, someone is dropping the ball. Again, this kid is seven - not 15. If your kid is this fucked up at that age, society did not do it to him. A complete lack of parenting and/or a conscious effort by a deadbeat father who thinks it's funny to get his kid to act like a gangster, consequences be damned, did.

Speculating a bit here, of course, but I've seen kids act this fucked up that young, and it's usually because big bro or dad think he's a toy him and his friends can sit around and laugh at when they're high.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #36

(05-24-2013 04:27 PM)Sombro Wrote:  Boomers were shit parents.
Now their kids are parents.

Or even more broadly:

Kids without parents who pass on manners, teach skills or foster an interest in learning
+ Lousy school systems dumbed down with Frankfurt School groupthink
+ Submerged into a social/media culture where low culture entertainment, shoddy journalism and advertising are indistinguishable to them
+ electronic geegaws that cut them off from reality, further making them social retards
_________________________________

= Idiots.

Maybe you answer your own question.

Post: #37

My personal opinion is that people have stayed the same.

One thing that we have to remember is that communications and media are much more open these days. I remember reading in the history books how the media worked with both the Republican party and Democratic party to present a strong front for the public. For instance, when FDR was president the media hid the fact that he could not walk due to polio for the entirety of his presidency. Also, President Eisenhower was banging his 25 year old driver lady or something and the media refused to air it due to the fact that "the personal lives of our politicians have no bearing on their competency to lead" or something. Then came Vietnam and the Pentagon papers where the media essentially did a 180 after finding out that both the Republicans and Democrats had lied to the public about the conduct and progress of the war. This lead to a culture of "investigative journalism" which basically left everything up for grabs.

In addition, before the internet anything that aired on TV, radio, or the newspaper could be easily controlled and stifled by the elite and government. Also, news of stupid shit often wouldn't spread beyond your hometown or city back in the day. Now with facebook, online news sources, etc, those things cannot be stifled or hidden.

So, what has really happened isn't that the generations have gotten dumber, its that news of stupid shit spreads more easily and cannot be controlled by the powers that be due to technology and a new, aggressive media culture.

Post: #38

Easy question! Answer: dysgenic breeding

Post: #39

High IQ people don't breed. Evolution doesn't care how smart you are if you don't make offspring.

Post: #40

Well all the jobs that require intelligence are being outsourced oversees. That's why Asian kids are so good at math and programming. We need a dumber population to fill all the menial service jobs in this country. That's all that will be left eventually.

Post: #41

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/...40281.html



The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

Post: #42

Dont worry, when the singularity hits all this will change: every new generation will be smarter, stronger, and infernally more ambitious. Every likes and dislikes, personal tastes and size of every cell in your body will be pre-cooked/pre-programmed in a testtube. There will be no beta males/fat chicks. Everybody will be hot as fuck and super intelligent and getting more so.

Every parent will want their children to inherit the latest in gene modifications to make them the best there is. Competition will be fierce. Nothing will be left to chance/nature.

It will be GATTACA world.

Then, phase 2 will happen: in vivo gene modification of fully grown adults.(in contrast to ex vivo or in vitro gene mods).

IRT will be able to go to a doctor and have his skin tone, eye colour, and height changed to white and tall on the genetic level.. Even the size of his instrument if needs be. hehehe.

Various augmentation technology to further enhances human biological capabilities will be du jour. Everything will be pushed to it utmost limits...no aging, no cancer, no sickness...IQ of +1000 points, incredible reflexes, super senses, super-regeneration/healing, pre-cognition using abstruse statistical derivations to prevent crime, etc, this list goes on. Perfect symbiosis.

Personally, i think we've reached the apex of our natural biological evolution...IT IS TIME FOR SELF-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. It is time for eugenics.


P.S. this is why i am generally wary of sociological projections(american decline, etc) that doesnt factor in the shockwave effect of advent technologies. Technology is a game changer.

(05-22-2013 09:29 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  RANT WARNING

Why do young people feel such a powerful need to share everything?

Dumb fucker.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/hi...37059.html

Now I am happy she did it because she did commit a crime. But seriously, why are they so fucking dumb?

I remember watching a news clip about how a college professor in Florida figured out that a bunch of his students cheated on his test and he offered them an option to resolve the matter. So the a dumb fucking kid gets interviewed and he says something along the lines of "It isn't a big deal, everyone does it." You want a future employer to see that? Dumb fucking assholes. This is why there should be tests to have kids.

It is ok to be dumb - it isn't a crime, I get it. But don't go hurting people. You wanna sit around and piss away your life fine. But hurting someone and then not owning it, I don't have the words.

Side note: Then the rednecks complain about all these immigrants coming to take jobs. We import brains because our students focus on useless degrees.

RANT OFF