The Next Generation

[Ramone45]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how the next generation is going to change things in our society and in our world for the better. It's mostly related to the hyperventilation over the recent mass shootings. History tells us that things are not going to change appreciably. My generation produced the greatest counter-cultural shift in American history and we are still royally fucked up. We brought you Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. We couldn't even get pot legalized. The next generation is stupider than us, just as we were stupider than the generation before us.

 

[Luk]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how the next generation is going to change things in our society and in our world for the better. It's mostly related to the hyperventilation over the recent mass shootings. History tells us that things are not going to change appreciably. My generation produced the greatest counter-cultural shift in American history and we are still royally fucked up. We brought you Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. We couldn't even get pot legalized. The next generation is stupider than us, just as we were stupider than the generation before us.

It's just you, dumbfuck.

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how the next generation is going to change things in our society and in our world for the better.

And it already is.

 

[Ramone45]

It's just you, dumbfuck.

LOL. Right on schedule

 

[Ramone45]

And it already is.

Just like Mr. Obama's Nobel Prize

 

[Comshaw]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how the next generation is going to change things in our society and in our world for the better. It's mostly related to the hyperventilation over the recent mass shootings. History tells us that things are not going to change appreciably. My generation produced the greatest counter-cultural shift in American history and we are still royally fucked up. We brought you Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. We couldn't even get pot legalized. The next generation is stupider than us, just as we were stupider than the generation before us.

What do you me "WE" Kemosabe?

Comshaw

 

[Rightguide]

They will lose their republic and the land.

 

[AlotLikePsyche]

Get off my lawn!

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

LOL. Right on schedule

https://pics.me.me/youre-fucking-stupid-188707.png

 

[BoyNextDoor]

They will lose their republic and the land.

And there you have it folks - the fear.

 

[Ramone45]

Get off my lawn!

I'm just saying that nothing changes. Listen to the lyrics of "For What It's Worth" and "Revolution". Nothing changes.

 

[Ramone45]

Christ. "For What It's Worth" was written over a half a CENTURY ago. It could have been written yesterday.

 

[Chancellor_Palpatine]

They will lose their republic and the land.

You gonna take it back from the cockroaches? Fight alongside Ismale?

 

[AlotLikePsyche]

I like Millennials. They care about the world, are more civically engaged than my generation is/was and they tend to be tolerant. They give me hope.

 

[thør]

I like Millennials. They care about the world, are more civically engaged than my generation is/was and they tend to be tolerant. They give me hope.

My children give me hope.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I'm just saying that nothing changes. Listen to the lyrics of "For What It's Worth" and "Revolution". Nothing changes.

RAMONE: "Why didn't that song by Buffalo Springfield change the world immediately? It said everything that needs to be said!!! I even got my first handjob by it when it was on the radio!!!"

OTHER RATIONAL PEOPLE: "That's...not how change in the world works, Ramone. That's not how any of this works."

 

[Libsam]

Generation Z. Zero Day.

Boomers were hedonists.
X were nihilist.
Millennials are absurdist. Locke and Hume like philosophy, bottom of the barrel stuff.
Generation Z, I think they will be a rebirth of rationalism. I hear it coming in their music, it scares me a bit, righteous judgement.

 

[Hypoxia]

I don't believe in generations. I believe in reactions to catastrophes. Western and American cultures changed in spurts after WWI, after the Great Depression and WWII, during VietNam, after 9-11 etc, not on a 'generational' schedule. Gen labels are for marketing, not historical analysis. Buy THIS if you're Gen-Z, yada yada.

Y'all are free to dread what catastrophe will trigger the next big changes.

USA at least is still more divided by region, class, religion, ethnicity than by age groups. Most USAnians born around when I was ain't much like me. Grouping me with them won't reveal many insights.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Was better than TOS.
http://www.marcospecialties.com//images/products/31-1357-50023/large.jpg

 

[WoundedKnee]

I'll just state the obvious. Every new generation thinks it knows everything.
Then, a substantial number of them grow up and learn to deal with the complexity that is reality.
What we tend to do, as part of human nature, is group people and then try to find some defining characteristic.
However, when we focus on highlighted behavior, inclination or technology, we lose sight of the idea that human behavior does not change.
Our societies run through many cycles, and each cycle cannot be defined as a group because of birth date.
Too much like Astrology.
You might point to a subset of any generation and say this defines the generation,
but this is not a valid observation, for even if you say, hey, they are Hedonists,
there are still Stoics among them.


On a final note, Botany should be boiled in coconut oil for the crime of screen stretching.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I typed that out in pieces and then you fix your Izzy-style post?

Well, thanks for fixing it.

 

[WoundedKnee]

"... related to the hyperventilation over the recent mass shootings."

I wonder how the hyper-ventilators would hold up in the face of some serious shooting, such as, WWI, WWII, Korea...,
Also, this highlights the rise of the the unassailable victim and "virtue signaling," the better label for the hyperventilation. And you really cannot pin that behavior on this generation, for that is a taught behavior on the part of those who were tasked with informing and educating them. Instead their education became a political indoctrination.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Take the Roaring 20s, for example. It wasn't just the new generation "roaring," they were joined by a lot who went before them. It was just a reaction based upon events and human nature.

 

[BBX4]

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p350x350/18814269_1284260321622866_8056483412129972868_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=a6a28231ad24e780b01b5a1b54416664&oe=5B2DD86Dand this

 

[BotanyBoy]

"... related to the hyperventilation over the recent mass shootings."

I wonder how the hyper-ventilators would hold up in the face of some serious shooting, such as, WWI, WWII, Korea...,

LOL

They would do the only thing they know how to do, stand there with a stupid look on their face and wait for someone else to do something.

Maybe organize a march for world peace where they all put their underwear on their heads and "change" the world with their marching!

LMFAO....buncha fucking retards.