People's refusal to accept change

I'm beginning to notice this more and more as I grow older and the people around me grow older. As a kid, many of us have experienced grandparents who have told you stories about "back in my days..." this and that.


Now, my friends and everyone around my age group is beginning to start this cycle and it's pissing me off because I notice it. Everyone is criticizing new genres of music saying it's not music; criticizing how people dress, and every aspect of pop culture. It's as if when people finally have their identity, they stick with it and become very opposed to any changes. Even things I see as improvements, they bitch and moan. And then there's those who feel like they're being progressive by following any liberal agenda, without thinking twice, such as gay marriage, while being opposed to similar situations such as polygamy. It's as if humans are spun and they go the path they were taught without any change at all, and it's bothering me severely.

Am I the only one to notice this without being a part of it? Or maybe I'm a part of it as well.

 

Humans tend to conform to the first things they hear on a subject and have a very hard time conforming to anything else.

It's a sad fact of life, but with things changing so often lately with technology I think we'll start seeing change as the norm, something to be expected.

 

Not you alone, Grave. I've been in the same situation like you have. It annoys me by a lot too. I tend to ignore them but as time pass by, more and more of my friends are turning this way and I'm yet to find a way to deal with it.

 

times are changing kids have it so good now days

 

It's this really. Moore's law says that computing power will double every 18 months, and that is generally the turn around time for new technology to come out. So change is much more rapid than it used to be. What you have stated though is mostly opinion. Sometimes it isn't smart to accept every change right off hand, a lot of things need to be questioned and prodded.

 

To be honest, I don't give a shit what people wear etc. (except for lady gaga wearing a meat suit. I can accept dodgy looking clothes, but meat? No..) I do occasionally think WTF is he/she wearing? But I'll never say anything because even now, I'm 20 and older people still say "pull your pants up" to me. If it's comfy then I really don't see the problem with it.

 

Oh I know, but that's like half the issue. People tend to accept and trend things that are just hearsay, and it becomes extremely difficult to convince them otherwise.

I mean, global warming being an opinion? The fuck are those people smoking?

 

With the pants thing, not sure if I'm going off a tangent, but does anyone else also notice the influence of school? I'm not sure if this is the cause, but teachers pushed the difference between "they're" and "their" so much as well as other grammar, that now everyone points it out every fucking chance they get to; they do it with a sense of pride as if they're still in elementary school.

To be honest, I'd prefer if everyone just fucked them all up at this point.

 

Man made Global Warming is opinion and its actually 100% false infact we are starting a cooling period.

Since 1998 it has not been warming (Even while we are polluting exponential worse every year) its been preparing for a cooling period while its true in the last 100 years it has gotten hotter but that was the end of a pretty cool period in time.

 

I used to say this until I did some research and found out that, while humans aren't the sole cause, they're the major driving force and are shifting the natural balance. Temperature change wouldn't be as drastic as it is without the massive amounts of pollutants that have been released for about 150 to 200 years now.

 

I see what your trying to say. But truth be told its just that generations are getting worse.

Sex is happening at a age way too young.
A lot of songs/music sound like shit or sound like broken records. Have no meaning or worse have a serious horrible meanings yet these kids sing it and complain about being told names because they act like such name.
Dressing has gotten worse, especially those swag fags.
Marijuana has gotten a worse image thanks to the new generations.

Maybe you've heard things from those around you different than I have but its not refusing change, its just realizing whats happening.

Look at all social media sites and what is shared. These kids don't even understand the songs they share to "describe their situation".

They all think they're deep.

They're full of bull nowadays.

And they're being herded like sheep.

 

It's funny you say this because I believe I used similar terminology a while ago (I was trying to find a song to describe my feelings). The only thing is that I couldn't find one.

With the rest of the aforementioned topics, I am one that still adapts to certain new items/fashions/genres but find it difficult to with others. For example, I am recognizing that there are a lot of mistakes that are occurring in the world due to "new technologies" emerging and everyone wanting to be up with the "latest trend".

Everytime I see a person walk in (to the grocery store) talking on the newest iPhone or Galaxy S(whatever number it is now), with their coach purses, north face jackets, and acura/cadillac/(luxury car), and then proceeding to pay with Food Stamps (government funded food) - I want to call the government and say "you need to explain this".

Meanwhile my friend is in college and is barely staying afloat - They have cut out all of her loans and scholarships (for the most part) and are leaving her high and dry at a $40K a year school that she can't even back out of until she "pays off the remaining balance". Her clothes are essentially rags and her parents barely do anything for her. And still... she somehow got an upgrade (contract or something) for her phone to whatever the latest and greatest is? It makes NO SENSE.

On the topic of clothing styles, I think everyone wears what they want to wear based on where they believe they will be in life. I personally try to wear a little more up-styled clothing that's inexpensive to buy and still looks sharp. I make sure my clothes fit me well and don't hug my chest (and gut) or make my legs look like sausages. In the same sense I also don't have them so large that I could float away like a kite with the smallest breeze. I think that this partially has to do with how we were raised in the household.

With this I say that the "criticism" you see, truly comes from how we were raised as a generation and the different classes we were raised in. My family is "middle class" and so when we see the people walking around in the pants sagging, shirts 12 sizes too large, and women with shirts too small to fit around their stomachs or pants so tight you can see their vag. (or a 10 year old girl wearing those types of pants and skimpy tops because it's "trendy") - we think it's classless. However, it's part of a trend so we merely poke fun at it and then get back to our lives. It doesn't effect us and therefore we don't really care.

Music is another story. Our family all has different views on what genres we like. With that in mind, I am probably the one that adapts to almost everything. However, the music market is getting ultra-saturated which isn't good for those that are coming out as truly talented people. Their voice is mixed with some J-Biebs and others who make the industry a joke (at least in my opinion).

On to your final question Graves: I do notice it and there are certain things that I criticize while others I sort of just live with and watch go by.

 

Ahahaha, based on what? What does this have to do with anything? And what makes you think this is anything new?

Every single generation had this, don't even pretend like it didn't.
This is nothing new with popular music.

Completely opinionated, who cares what the flavour of the month clothing design is? It always changes.

I'm afraid I have no clue what you're talking about. Cannabis has been seen in a better light to more people than ever before, things are changing, major steps are being taken in this department. It is no longer as demonized as it used to be.

I think it's looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.

Who cares?

Everyone thinks they're real deep, ha.

Oh, and where did you hear this? Willing to bet an opinionated news wesbsite!

Do like an hour of research on google scholar and realize just how stupid that really sounds.

 

Happens all the time.

 

It's just their own individual opinions, the only thing that won't change is their views and instead of accepting new things they decide to think that their own opinion is infact a fact. Which is really dumb because half the people don't even notice that and they only believe in what their parents/friends think and will then also believe it this instead of themselves.