how will our generation compare to older ones?

I disagree.

Our generation is stuck with cleaning up the Baby Boomer's mess. Our Grandparents built this country and our parents drove it into the ground.

You're a college/high school student so sure all you see is out generation partying and what not but so did our parents. Drug use and partying in the 60s 70s and 80s was just as bad as it is now, if not worse. When our generation comes of age the partying will stop, it always does. Theres really no more distractions now than there was then, sure more variety but the same potency.

Our Generation will be better than our parents, we will have to be. Better then our Grandparents? Probably not but better than our parents? For sure.

 

You're saying that we would do better than our parent's generation? Compare today with 15 years ago. See how much the world has advanced thanks to them. Could you explain why you say that our parent's generation drove it to the ground? How?

How fast was the world moving towards the future 100 years ago? There were breakthroughs and great inventions, but compare it with today. All the new ideas, the new technology, cures, the upgrades were all from our parent's generation and their ideas. We are moving faster than ever.

Do you really think that our generation would be able to compete with theirs? How many people are wasting most of their time on the internet, TV etc.

Back then there were parties, drugs and all that, yes. But for how long did it occupy them? Compare how long it occupied them to how long we're occupied with things that doesn't really benefit us now?

How are we going to move towards further advancement of technology when a large % of the world are too busy occupied with other things? Honestly, when I was in Highschool and the first year of college, I was distracted by games and the internet. Our parent's generation didn't spend several hours of their days playing LoL, WoW etc.

I had to admit to myself that I was being distracted with things that it played a huge role into why I was slacking with schoolwork.

If Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and all the other great minds of our parent's generation had LoL, WoW, Facebook etc. in their lives, do you really think they would be where they are today? Most likely not.

 

i feel like much more of the innovations and stuff are coming from the pacific rim area, and not as much america like it used to be

 

By our parent's generation, I think he means the whole world and not only America.

But I do agree with you.

Don't forget that right now a lot of parents are strict. With the way our generation are, I feel as they won't be strict enough with their children.

 

If you're dumb enough to be totally consumed and addicted to a video games then you're not a great mind, I'm sorry. Video games don't have any physical addictive properties to them, they are just as addictive as TV was 30 years ago.

The Baby Boomers lived a drug filled life of leisure Ecstasy. Our Parents didnt spend several hours of their day playing video games but they did spend it doing just as useless of activities.

When youre parents tell you "youre wasting away playing video games back in my day i went out and had fun" thats exactly what they did, drug use and partying were at its peak with the baby boomer generation. Finally for the first time in mankind's existence there was a country that had everything you needed incredibly easy to access (food, water, shelter) and simple luxuries were rampart, the life of a low class American was equal to the life of a middle class European. There was no driving factor to be the best because America was the best.

Again, your view is construed because you are a high school/college student who was probably told a thousand times by your parents that their generation was great and yours is terrible and all you have to go off of is all the partying you see because that's just what college kids do.

http://subversify.com/2011/02/18/the-baby-boomers-who-destroyed-the-world/

Quick read explaining how the Baby Boomers are killing America

 

Right now the young children and teenagers of today... Have you seen what they have? Mobiles, Ipads, Computers, Laptop, Gaming Consoles. Have you seen the sale of the game Skyrim? How much it sold on the first few days? You clearly haven't done your research.

Video games have this thing that gives people the desire to finish it, by doing so, they spend more time. Everyone likes games, who doesn't? You don't seem to. You give me 1 good reason why these children and teenagers should put all that aside when they have it in front of them and do something more useful and boring with their life. Can you tell them to? Just because they decide to spend most of their time on a video game, they aren't a great mind? Or did they choose to go that path because it's more entertaining? Just because they chose it, it doesn't make them a great mind? Or does it simply hold them back from becoming one? You think that simply because people chooses the more entertaining path, you instantly class them as dumb. Funny.

You're saying that the Baby Boomers spent 8 hours a day doing useless activities back then? I honestly believe you're stupid now. 8 hours average daily doing drugs and partying. Even our generation spends no where close to that time doing said activities.

I suggest you do your research on the generation of today before ever posting on this topic again. The average child spends almost 8 hours a day on TV, Internet, games etc. And you are an idiot for comparing them with the previous generation, saying they spent just as much time doing useless activities.

By now it's most likely over 50% easily.

Compare and you'll see why your point is invalid. I honestly cannot believe you just said that the previous generation spent just as much time on drugs as the average kid/teen today spends on games/TV/Computer.

Was this topic about America only? Where does it say that? Why bring that in? Does it not say "Generation"? Doesn't that mean every other country and not just the America?

It's a rhetorical question, don't bother.

Above I proved why your point is invalid.

Did I say partying only? I've already explained it anyway.

No one had any influence at the very least in my response. It's the way I see the world, we've undeniably advanced faster than ever because of our parent's generation, at least mine. All you have to do is actually use your head and open your eyes.

 

What an interesting way to debate, you belittle me and call me names, I guess you might be right about our generation being counter productive if you're an accurate representation of it.

You really think your mom and dad spent all day studying and working hard, is that what they told you? You really do believe that, don't you?

As for your video game argument goes...

I bought Skyrim at midnight, have over 100 hours on it.
Have over 100 hours on Fallout3, New Vegas, Diablo 2, various Final Fantasys and have played many many other games
I own an Xbox360 Wii and PS3
I have multiple Runescape toons with 99s
I have raided in top 20 US guilds in WoW
I'm Diamond in SC2
I intend on sinking tons of time in Diablo 3
I regularly smoke Marijuana and have tried other drugs
I go out every other weekend

I also have a part time Job, a near 4.0 GPA, will get my Bachelors degree in less than a year and will get a Masters degree soon after.

Just because you and some other people can't handle video games and school/social life doesn't mean our entire generation is fucked.

I did take this debate in the sense that we are discussing America, if you want to discuss the world then your argument is even more invalid, take a look at Present day People's Republic of China vs 1970s China.

America hit it's peak right after WW2 on the backs of our grandparents.

Our parents have succeeded in losing multiple wars (Vietnam, Middle Eastern wars, war on drugs) draining our economy.
The Government is run by lobbyists and special interest billionaires
Our Workforce is completely fucked, the Baby Boomers have effectly ate Social Security before it even reached it's goal, tons and tons of jobs are going to filled with old 60+ year olds because they won't be able to retire, leading to shoddy work while the younger more efficient workers are forced to sit back and watch.

Distractions are distractions, work is not fun, it doesn't matter what time period you're in no one WANTS to put hard work into anything. Our generation may have more distractions but overall our work ethic is unproven.

In comparison it will be hard as fuck for our generation to be as bad as our parent's.

 

Gallup polls indicating High School drug use and paryting are not really relevant, High school is and was kind of useless. College is really where people changed and thats where our parents changed.

We cope with distractions much better than our parents did, we've grown up with it, you and I have been playing video games our entire lives and know how to work around it. The majority of Baby Boomers grew up in strict households, got to college, finally on their own and went wild. Like letting loose a caged animal.

The stats are there, our economy and outlook is much worse now than it was 20-30 years ago. It's up to us to make it better.

 

ummm, hate to break it too you, but some people do want to work hard. that is the basis of the free market economy, and while not perfect, it sure as hell beats the communists...

look at my grandpa for example. owns on of the largest non public mortgage company in the us, and while bieng 70 years old still works harder than any guy i have ever met. people really do want to work hard, maybe not at some bs mcdonalds job, but once you get a taste of the high life youll do anything to keep it...

thats one reason i feel some of our generation will strive to work hard. but at the same time, someone working a crappy job now as compared to 50 years ago might not work as hard, due to the distractions of modern times.

 

I didn't call you "names". I basically said it was stupid of you to actually compare the previous generation with today. And now you agree with me that you were wrong to compare the previous generation spending countless hours on drugs and partying daily.

Stop being ignorant. I clearly stated that no one had any influence in my argument. And if you want to know, my dad has a business that runs perfectly on its own. Neither parents have to work and they did not spend all day studying and working hard. They never told me such thing. Don't be an idiot, I say it again, after I clearly told you that they didn't have any influence in my argument. Don't even bother bringing it up again.

Skyrim has been out for 5 months now. That's an average play time of 40 minutes a day on average. That's nothing. Another 100+ hours on said video games. Those games have been out for a while now. Once again, that's nothing. What's your point if you own 3 game consoles? Must have botted runescape. I don't know about the others as I've never played it.

You say you regularly smoke Marijuana. You know from experience. You said that the previous generation have been doing such sort of stuff for 8 hours. You compared what the previous generation does most of the day, in this case 8 hours, with the time the generation of today spends on electronics.

Where did I say I can't handle video games? I said I was slacking. It, as I said before, holds you back. What I say clearly goes in your head and thrown out immediately, as you're missing every point and this is becoming a pointless debate with you. Answer everything I point out, rather than just the ones you think you can come up a point for.

You're going overboard now. Not everyone on Sythe is from America. And how many Chinese are there on Sythe? Why bring that up? It's more like America, Europe and Australia. What's the point of this thread if it's intended for Americans only when there are people from Europe and Australia here? It's about the respondent's previous generation, not everyone here is from America.

And how is it the Baby Boomer's fault? You're saying that America went to war with said countries because of the Baby Boomer's? As I quoted someone on the above post. You're clearly not absorbing what I say so I'll copy and paste it for you again.

Because America wanted money and went to war with the countries, you blame it on the whole previous generation. How? Enlighten me.

Read above. Tell me how this group of people suddenly represents the previous generation consisting of millions of people? Did the millions of people have much of a choice on the actions taken by the country?

Why is the US in debt? Trillions of dollars were spent on wars. How often were they in war with a country? What if it wasn't spent on wars?

And aren't you just proving my point? That our generation "younger more efficient workers are forced to sit back and watch" are basically going to do worse than our previous one? Even if it was their fault, the point is we will do worse.

My point is with less distractions, our previous generation have been able to make the world what it is today. The technology, computers, Internet, cures etc. I am seriously only repeating myself as you are just throwing whatever I say out of your mind.

But you said that the previous generation had just as much distraction. How come you're saying that our generation now has more distractions? At least that's one thing you got.

If you read where I was coming from I said that the world would advance slower with our generation around. With more distractions, more entertainment and less desire to work on new things, our generation's output would be poor compared to the previous. The only thing that would really help us get anywhere is greed. Companies are competing to come up with better things.

Yes it does. I honestly cannot tell if you're trolling now.

Where does it say that the respondents were from Highschool? Aren't some of the respondents already from college or graduated?

You're saying that there is just as much drug users as there was back then? It clearly says otherwise.

Cite your proof for the following:

I'd also like to see how many of them were actually as bad and distracted as our generation of today.

When did it happen? Wasn't George Bush and/or Obama blamed for this? It only recently happened. Why are you blaming the previous generation?

You do realize that the previous generation has made everything easier for us with all the technology out. But they also made it harder for us to focus and spend more time bettering ourselves. We are basically relying on what they came up with.

 

The Gallup Poll clearly is a comparison of High School students, how do you not realize that? Why compare 1973 Graduates with 1999 Students? It's the same demographic, just different time period.

How is it the Baby Boomer's fault? You do realize that the people that voted in America's leaders were in fact Baby Boomers, right? The leaders themselves are Baby Boomers!

You seemed to argue everything I said except for this one thing...

We cope with distractions much better than our parents did, we've grown up with it, you and I have been playing video games our entire lives and know how to work around it. The majority of Baby Boomers grew up in strict households, got to college, finally on their own and went wild. Like letting loose a caged animal.

We have grown up with distractions, we are used to them, we can work around them. From 10 years old we have been playing video games and yet there are plenty of us who will be successful.

 

Point is if 4x more students tried Marijuana in Highschool in 1999, that obviously means that there will and are more users in that period of time.

Could I get your source on where you said:

If half of the students in highschool tries Marijuana, that shows that it's easier to acquire these days and is used by more people. Back then, it was a mere 12% of the respondents of the poll were highschool students. If the poll was based on HS students anyway.

Did they see this coming? Did they have much of a choice when it happened? If I lived in America and I was a US citizen, I wouldn't vote for anyone. Not if you see it that way.

You know that these leaders deceives the people to get in power. That's really the only way to get as much power. Once done, they go ahead and do what they want. Leaders tells the people what they want to hear. You think the people would vote for someone that tells them that they will be going to war and represent their generation?

I missed it out. I don't see how we would cope with distractions better. Especially having more distractions where we would desire to spend more time with. It's unproven, yet. We know how to work around it, but how many people really do?

I cannot relate to how the majority of Baby boomers grew up. All of my uncles and Aunts are extremely successful because they grew up like this. They were let out like a loose caged animal, at least I know one was. But he controlled it and balanced it out. He is now the most successful individual among my uncles and aunts. But I doubt my other relatives acted like "Loose caged animals". I really didn't want to say it, as they are only a small group of people. I don't know how others were raised really, and I cannot just jump to a conclusion based on my relatives.

Our previous generation were successful. If there is one thing that is helping us, it's the internet and the easy access to books. We have google to help us, online libraries etc. But only if we put it to good use.

However, we won't further technology as fast as the previous generation did. We have more distractions around us which holds us back.

Compare today with 30 years ago. Today women gets pregnant at such an early age. A lot of fathers leave them. A lot of people are unprepared for such an event and thus leads to struggle. If they prepared for such an event, and waited a few more years, it would be a hell lot easier.

There's a number of factors that holds us back, more than our previous generation had. There's a few that helps us advance though, thanks to the previous generation.

 

The youth today is corrupted by the media

 

Lazy self entitled degenerate sheep.

 

Our generation is shit, everything all the people want to be is based off TV or some other reality crap.

Look at the people from the 50s-60s they were ballers.

 

look at the people from the 1700's, those niggas was trill...


^^^that is an example of the pitifulness of our society...lol