Every generation has always assumed the younger ones are dumbest, shallower, irresponsible and less respectful towards elders. Twenty years from now it'll be today's kids asking if their time's kids are dumber than they or their elders were.
Every generation has always assumed the younger ones are dumbest, shallower, irresponsible and less respectful towards elders. Twenty years from now it'll be today's kids asking if their time's kids are dumber than they or their elders were.
you kids make me laugh. I'm talking about the 80's decade..you had to be a teenager of course during this time. It's called a generation for example "gen x" "gen y" etc etc
You didn't realize someone who is 40 has more life experience and time to mature/learn than some kid peer of yours lol?
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
I disagree with you. Granted, there are always intelligent people. However, when I went to high school; everyone overall was working hard to prepare for their career. Most of them dressed well, spoke well, and took pride in what they were involved in.
I pick up my sister-in-law from her high school... all the boys look like girls. Everyone has their hair combed down over their face. Everyone acts like a retard. A disturbingly large amount of the girls are pregnant. Everyone is flunking out. Every single person has their face down in their phone; almost crashing into each other.
...hell you have to try VERY hard to find someone in the 16yo range that is well spoken, well dressed and intelligent. If you are 16-17 and you don't fit what I just wrote... congratulations... you're a minority. Don't waste it.
uh lol I'm 35 and was born in 77 so... I guess they taught us better math back then.
The period of time you were brought up during does affect you a bit I think, but people born in the 80s ain't smarter, just a little bit different. Sociaty changes and so does attitudes, but we continously change as we adapt to the sociaty we live in. But one noticable difference to me is gaming, I was born Dec 84 and I think people my age spent a lot more time playing outdoors for example, kids these days are much more "indoorsey", we did have Amiga, Nintendo and Sega etc but you didn't play nearly as much as it seem kids do these days.
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The nerve is called the "nerve of awareness". You cant dissect it. Its a current that runs up the center of your spine. I dont know if any of you have sat down, crossed your legs, smoked DMT, and watch what happens... but what happens to me is this big thing goes RRRRRRRRRAAAAAWWW! up my spine and flashes in my brain... well apparently thats whats going to happen if I do this stuff...
I was born in 1981 and i have a vague memory of what the 80s was like
IT SUCKED!
Apart from the music that is
Then that's what you should have said. "People from the 80s" implies they were born in the 80s.
Not sure why they'd be any smarter than anyone else. I've enjoyed the women I've dated from that generation, but I don't think they're any smarter than we are. Maybe a bit more mature on average, but that's just 10-20 more years of experience talking.
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Most of the Gen X cutoffs are around 1980, but it really depends on who you ask. If I were to go by your scale, I would be Gen X, and I certainly don't feel like Gen X. I feel like my generation is the one between Gen X and Generation Text,
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I think near the edges of the generation there are people that have characteristics of both. Its not like someone born in 1980 is going to have the same attitude as someone born in 1975 but a totally different attitude than someone born in 1981. A lot of it probably depends on siblings and parents ages.
See you are talking mainly about style. Sure i don't think kids have it now...but they certainly don't think i have it either. That in no way relates to sharpness or smarts. Hell I could be very well dressed and still be a dope.
I think we also have some fairly rose colored glasses. I'm sure your high school class wasn't as hard working and well dressed as you remember it. Granted I'm sure a lot of it was...just like I'm sure a lot of high schoolers today are.
Get a grip man! It's CHEESE!
You chose to focus on one part of my statement. I made 2 comments about style and 4 about common sense / intelligence. That is not "mainly about style". Not to mention, I definitely think there is a link between 'dressing for success' so to speak and dressing like a homeless person but I'll leave that alone.
I'd probably look at high schoolers with more respect if I didn't receive a "huh" every time I talk to them about anything (if they even bother paying attention to me in the first place; It's not like I'm someone they cant relate to. I'm almost 30, but I still get carded and most people think I'm around 22... Its not like they're talking to grandpa here.), if they could write a proper paragraph with something resembling standard grammar and actually took pride in having a legitimate hobby or skill that they worked toward honing (instead of spending all day texting on their phone or snooping on facebook).
Hell, most of the teenagers I run into have no idea what they're going to do for a career. They have no inkling of any talent or purpose they might have... they seem lost and skill-less with a bad education, no role models and no respect for anyone around them.
Lastly, I don't have rose colored glasses. I remember the groups of people that dressed 'special' and did poorly. They were nowhere near as large as they are now. I'd love to see the high honor roll and honor roll lists now a days... that's probably been lowered to a 'C' average so it looks fuller. >_>
My guess is that people from that age range:
a. have experience and knowledge that they got over time
b. are young enough to still be in touch with the now
It will probably switch, in 10 years it will be the people of the 90s, and so on.
I'd say if you were born in the 80s and were a 90s kid you are probably smarter.
not all of us took technology for granted and got addicted to facebook and other dumb stuff, we actually took advantage of the internet and learned things.
Go read shampoo planet and Generation X by someone who was actually there and you can see that people in the 80s were just as vapid and moronic as people today.