(04-30-2024, 07:09 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Our young people have watched this country go to Hell in a hand basket. They are not just silent quitting their jobs, they are silent quitting the world.
They see only a future for the haves. They don't want to contribute or walk the path that they think has placed them where are now standing.
I think that are damn smart in some ways, and damn stupid in others.
I don't blame them for being angry, rebellious, and non-compliant. I blame them for allowing themselves to be used as tools for the same system that is enslaving them.
That is very likely the absolute and unvarnished truth, and it is exactly why I have no sympathy for them.
They have the gumption to bestir themselves to "protest" on behalf of a bunch of cold blooded killers who would wipe them out at the drop of a hat if given the chance (those poor, poor, bloodthirsty murderous bastards!), but they DO NOT have the gumption to get off their asses and put the effort in to improve their own lives in the direction they would like to see them go.
Their priorities are all fouled up, and they will NEVER get the world they want, or the lives they want, with such screwed up priorities.
They think everything should just be handed to them with no effort on their part... and much of that attitude is OUR fault for handing them everything when they were children. But now they are no longer children, and cold hard reality in the real world is kicking their soft asses... and they don't have the gumption to change it.
None of the rest of us had anything simply handed to us. Not our generation, not our parents' generation, not our grandparents' generation. Matter of fact, the best service our parents and grandparents did for us was to instill that notion that you never get anything for nothing - you've got to put at least some effort in to get what you want. we did not teach our kids that, and now we are seeing the results of raising a lazy, shiftless, "Gimme" generation.
Now that is a generalization. There are those standout individuals in their generation that were raised right, have the gumption, and will get the lives they want and deserve. But, by and large, we raised the generation that will end the world, or at least humanity's presence (and influence) in it.
Shame on us.
Humanity has ONE hope, and one hope only - the old truism about generations that goes:
Hard times make hard men.
Hard men make soft times.
Soft times make soft men.
Soft men make hard times.
Humanity has only the hope that enough hard men will be produced to carry it through the hard times and make the world better. Most of the kids I see protesting these days are NOT those necessary hard men.
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