When we decide as a culture that trowing polite society out the window is the best way to be real because manners are pretentious, we throw the very idea of civilization out the window along with it. Oh, and people just being who they really are in all situations has never been good for anything. Just FYI.
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You should have said, "Damn straight, and don't forget it!"
Also " a well armed society is a polite society "
"Politeness " died with the words police officer . Now they are " law enforcement officers " and not a single one of them know that the word police is derived from the word " polite "
Well said! I’m 65 and see it happening
The new youth of generation alpha are just like this too. I think that's because they were raised by millinial s.
I don't go to concerts anymore for that reason. I do have a solution in your case: Flash powder M-80, and a grin like Gomez Adams and in your case ear plugs. Yes high explosives will get you respect from the younger generation. I'm 67. Crazy eyes after lighting the fuse.
This is what every older generation has said about the younger generations since the beginning of time.
Our time and generations are not at all special. Today's children are no worse than we were, and old people now are no better nor worse than the old ones who were our detractors.
I'm a proud Gen Xer (May 1969, alive before the moon landing!). I've been interested with technology/electronics/computers/radio for as long as I can remember. Even back in my early school days I would be the odd one out reading an Electronics Australia magazine during breaks. I'm old enough to have seen a LOT of technology come into existence, technology that is taken for granted these days… like selling a JRC JLR-4000 GPS navigator to a fisherman in the late 1990s for $18K and telling him the GPS constellation wasn't complete so it wouldn't work all the time! I became a parent later in life and I really hate it when my 14yo son calls me a "Boomer".
Smartphones makes people more narcissistic!
Teens today are spending more time with their smartphone then family or friends!
You're certainly correct that there are a LOT of just pure garbage people today. But from personal experience I think it's more the noxious exception than the rule. We've had extremely good luck with hiring young engineers-to-be; they're almost uniformly smart, curious, nice people, favorably comparing to us old fart boomers (which I am.) We have the occasional entitled idiot who doesn't understand that he can't bring his mom along on his job interview, but the ones we've hired have been delightful. I think universities in the "humanities" and even the squishy sciences have intentionally done a lot of damage in their drive to destroy Western civilization, but lots of young people discard that influence. Especially in Chattanooga, TN.
Another example of the downward spiral is that young women nowadays all talk like porn stars. Take notice of it!..the cheap accent in their voice like they're ready for their 11pm porno shoot in Studio City. I noticed this more and more in the 90's up till now. Bad speech, illiteracy and a porno accent. It's true.
Do you want to know what the core problem is? Systemic living/civilization which is cooperation by force. Society is make believe living where "kindness" is just merely passive aggressive tolerance. A civilization is not freedom. It is rule, and if you don't obey, they liquidate you. This is why people act nasty in public. People are not free, so they are resentful.
Well, humans were always nasty creatures. Technology just allowed us to hide from the nasty. Ex. You used to have to pick up the phone when it rang and talk to somebody you had no interest in talking to. Then a miracle occured.🌈✨️We got answering machines, because "there's no f'ing way I wanna talk to you now.!" 😆
One of the main reasons I go to the gym is so I can walk through those people
Social interactions have changed. When someone is forced to look someone else in the eye and make a statement, that's wholly different from typing on a mini-keyboard on a phone. On a phone, it's incredibly easy to type whatever you want and send it off into the ether, not having to care about the ramifications. It's much more difficult to say that same thing to someone's face, unless of course, they are saying it at a podium in front of cameras.
Politeness and courtesy are both effectively gone. The lack of face to face interaction has seen to that. It's only likely to get worse before it gets better as technology keeps distancing us from one another. It doesn't help that many politicians today are embodying this same exact problem, but doing it in front of Fox News cameras. We're in an age of incredibly horrible role models who mistakenly believe they're good role models.
Fran, I see this a lot too and when I do, I try to smile and tend to either kill with kindness or just ignore it. Not worth having an argument over though I probably would have said something like that too. Working in a retail environment, I find older people display this type of behavior as much. Too much $$$. The sense of entitlement is just laughable. Having gotten to be 'old' I'm thankful I made it and I'd trade the wisdom gained (not nearly enough 😉) for the ignorance of youth any day. Keep on doing what you do Fran and ignore the naysayers as much as possible. 😊