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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our parents have succeeded in losing multiple wars (Vietnam, Middle Eastern wars, war on drugs) draining our economy.
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.
Each generation has both people who create and others who destroy. You only have to look back in history to get a view of other civilizations who had the same issues as today. Please do not blame my generation as we also created a lot of good outcomes.
Because America wanted money and went to war with the countries, you blame it on the whole previous generation. How? Enlighten me.
The Government is run by lobbyists and special interest billionaires
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes it does. I honestly cannot tell if you're trolling now.
in 1973, 12% of respondents to a Gallup poll said they had tried marijuana.
Where does it say that the respondents were from Highschool? Aren't some of the respondents already from college or graduated?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System found that almost half (47%) of all high school students had used marijuana at least once. Ten percent had tried a form of cocaine.
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:
College is really where people changed and thats where our parents changed
I'd also like to see how many of them were actually as bad and distracted as our generation of today.
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.
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.
