The Ruined Generation
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You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.
I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!
I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:
You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.
I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!
I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.
It's technology to the rescue, but it certainly is an unknown, compared to the rest of history. Fact: you are living through generational changes to the human experience happening at a faster pace than circa 99% of your ancestors.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in The Ruined Generation:
@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:
You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.
I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!
I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.
It's technology to the rescue, but it certainly is an unknown, compared to the rest of history. Fact: you are living through generational changes to the human experience happening at a faster pace than circa 99% of your ancestors.
I know, it's really quite exciting! Obviously, Very Bad Things are possible, but despite my admittedly somewhat artificially manufactured online persona as the most miserable man on earth, great things are also possible!
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@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:
You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.
I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!
I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.
They are definitely not. They are whip-smart, fast as hell, problem solvers and much more open minded than prior generations. Sometimes to a fault, but that will work out over time.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@mik said in The Ruined Generation:
@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:
You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.
I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!
I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.
They are definitely not. They are whip-smart, fast as hell, problem solvers and much more open minded than prior generations. Sometimes to a fault, but that will work out over time.
+1
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@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:
How we get out of this death spiral remains unknown, but the first step is to stop elevating those who impose it on us.
That's already happened. And it's the damn kids these days who are directly responsible.
Americans have always had a shorter tolerance for a particular kind of public bullshit, and you see it happening now with influencers and folks who are YouTube famous. The original formula of "look how exciting my life is" doesn't work anymore—you get mocked for promoting that kind of shit today. The only way to make it on those platforms today is to be yourself and to innovate.
And you can thank the lazy, selfish Millennials for that because not only do they spend an assload more time on these platforms than the writer of this article ever would, but they contribute much more to them, too.
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I made a promise when I was young that I would never start going on about how awful the young are when I got old. I'd never go on about how in my day we made our own entertainment, and how whatever it was that replaced TV isn't a patch on watching freaking Scooby Doo at 5 o'clock after we walked home from school in our underwear because we couldn't afford to catch the bus.
I'm not having it. When I was 15 I spent most of my available free time smoking behind the bush shelter, drinking hard cider on golf courses and generally being a little shit.
The people who spent their lives in church may have had different experiences. Bloody boring ones, most likely, which is why they're complaining now.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:
Scroll through social media and you’ll be inundated with selfies and pictures of food. Did something really happen, did you really eat a meal if you didn’t tell the world about?
That's this guy's fault, entirely. His total ignorance of the very same shit he's pontificating about is why he sees selfies and pictures of food.
I follow about 1,500 accounts on Instagram. I never see selfies and pictures of food in my feed. Not even in the sponsored posts. That's because I don't use Instagram to keep in touch with friends or follow celebrities, I use it to get better with photography. Every account I follow is a photography account, from people who are at least as knowledgable as me or more so.
The algorithms only spit out what your actions show you want it to spit out, jackass. Curate your feed. If you don't want to see selfies and breakfast pictures, stop liking selfies and breakfast pictures and stop following accounts that post that shit. It's literally that easy.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in The Ruined Generation:
@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:
Scroll through social media and you’ll be inundated with selfies and pictures of food. Did something really happen, did you really eat a meal if you didn’t tell the world about?
That's this guy's fault, entirely. His total ignorance of the very same shit he's pontificating about is why he sees selfies and pictures of food.
I follow about 1,500 accounts on Instagram. I never see selfies and pictures of food in my feed. Not even in the sponsored posts. That's because I don't use Instagram to keep in touch with friends or follow celebrities, I use it to get better with photography. Every account I follow is a photography account, from people who are at least as knowledgable as me or more so.
The algorithms only spit out what your actions show you want it to spit out, jackass. Curate your feed. If you don't want to see selfies and breakfast pictures, stop liking selfies and breakfast pictures and stop following accounts that post that shit. It's literally that easy.
Yes.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:
I made a promise when I was young that I would never start going on about how awful the young are when I got old. I'd never go on about how in my day we made our own entertainment, and how whatever it was that replaced TV isn't a patch on watching freaking Scooby Doo at 5 o'clock after we walked home from school in our underwear because we couldn't afford to catch the bus.
I'm not having it. When I was 15 I spent most of my available free time smoking behind the bush shelter, drinking hard cider on golf courses and generally being a little shit.
The people who spent their lives in church may have had different experiences. Bloody boring ones, most likely, which is why they're complaining now.
It's like were related or something. Scary actually. lol
