the younger generation kind of takes the older generation for granted, is what i'm saying, it had nothing to do with the older generation not doing anything and i hope what i said is not what's being interpretted as such !
i was saying that the younger generation is full of people like sum41 whining about reading shakespeare and how fractions are boring and how homework is not essential, and how the old people are just over-nagging. you're gonna be old, too, one day, and you're gonna claim to be what you run away from, but with your neo-conservative ways, you're already there, and lamenting on 10 years of nostalgia when those 10 years haven't even passed yet
but there's this whole phenomenon of rising youthful insurgence where the youth try to be precocious and try to assume that they already have that life experience they don't even have yet, and they try to tell people that's how things are, when they don't even know that--like, they'll say that politicians are corrupt, but again, how do you know that, and why aren't you, as a young american, doing anything about it except complaining and pointing it out? it's really jaded and pretentious and hypocritical
parents pay the bills and brought those kids into this world, and all they can do to pay someone back is "you made me breathe the air of conformist america!!! I HATE HOMEWORK!!! HOMO-WORK IS FOR FAGS!!!!! FUCK YOU SOCIETY" when they don't even know what all of society is like except for what's on mtv
and they want to call politicians evil and corrupt and just assume that's the way things are and that can't be changed. why don't you become a politician that isn't like that, for instance? because you're jaded and young and readily assume "oh, it's not gonna work. politicians are too corrupt to let me win" so you won't even try. that's your jaded youthful cynicism on life
anyway, seriously (4muffylan), i think we do go a little too carried away with age discernments, but at the same time, we also might get all too involved with the concept, and start using it as an excuse to be crooked with people who aren't quite your age
people looked at age as some kind of tell-all limitation to develop some lazy precognition of each other, because that's so easy to deal with, because it's lazy and you don't have to think no further about someone who you stereotype on age. it's the same with stereotyping black people, women, gay people, asians, et cetera, and we still do it even if we claim we're trying to be equal, because we're trying to make this big hairy deal about "blending two cultures" between "two different kinds of people" and that's nonsense, because that's just saying in itself that we are really not level with each other in the first place and we have to compromise ourselves for something like equality to seem present
the young people are trying to tell old people that they need to move on and get into the rock and roll style to be "equal" to the younger generation, and it can't be any other way because it's uncool to enjoy the old stuff that our dads liked because that's history and it's dorky and hasn't "caught up with the times"
and it's this whole subconscious fear of dying out with the old generation that we refuse to identify with or even bother relating to something like, showtunes
so it is like, to even bother with and placate this younger generation, we have this nonsense "disobey authority!" crap because that's pretty much what the younger generation has been saying
it had nothing to do with talking about security or trust, but if you want to get into that, i'll talk about that too, because i'm pretty young myself
about getting too involved
that's just about people who talk about age being a pretentious barrier against socializing, but lots of people say that because they're secret pedos
