The Generation of fags. eRm, Fragments.

[Rizzo in a box]

That is, the Fragmented Generation: (http://collegevalues.org/pdfs/Seider_&_Gardner.pdf)

Similarly, traditional American prototypes like the “flower child” or “Master of the
Universe” are no longer mutually exclusive entities. Young investment bankers working 80 hours
a week are buying Prius hybrids and building themselves homes that flaunt the latest green design
principles. Meanwhile, inner-city school principals and nonprofit directors are adopting corporate
management strategies that demand banker-like hours and data-driven results from their
employees. Some of today’s hottest buzzwords—“social enterprise,” ”microfinance,” ”corporate
sustainability”— explicitly, even oxymoronically, seek to merge the flower child and master of
the universe fragments into one.
Contemporary young Americans have come of age in a climate unlike any previous
group of Americans. They have grown up with access to enormous amounts of information from
Wikipedia and elsewhere while we, their elders, worry about the veracity of the information
coming at them— from Wikipedia, in chat rooms, on MySpace, etc. Earlier generations sought
guidance and mentorship from singular “experts,” while today’s young adults piece together
fragments from a multitude of sources.

et cetera.

[Death_Merchant]

I don't really agree with this completely. Most of the young people don't seem to know anything but easy information. The information that they are told, that's easy to understand, and requires little effort to follow. For instance, the prius hybrid is simply a trend created by car companies and environmentalists. People found out about these hybrids from television. Next to none of these people would bother to look into the environmental impact in comparison with other cars. They just take the easy information. Even on social networking sites, they don't find fragments there either. All they find is more of this easy information, and it's simply reinforced by the sites. Words like economic stimulus are on everyone's tongues, but do they understand how it will affect the economy? Of course not, they only know the easy information that they're told it's good, yet it could actually create a horrible backlash of inflation that could land us in depression territory.

When I look back, I don't see a new or changed culture. Western culture is simply still the same thing it has always been; just a shallow trend following culture driven by easy information. At one time it was the church dolling it out, and now it's schools and media. Social networking sites have only solidified the messages. If anything, people have more biased and narrow view of the world than ever before, or at least just the same old same old.

[LiquidIce]

I agree with Death Merchant. Even though we have tools to sift through petabytes of information and access to it all - just look how many people are actually proficient in searching for it? It's not only wikipedia, but what about comparing a few sites on the topic? And what if it's not on wikipedia?

I remember an old saying "If it ain't on the internet, it doesn't exist". And this saying is true for our generation. Thing is that the Internet is made up of Myspace/Facebook/Youtube for the majority of people. Only the minority sail through the spaces between the servers and look for something. Compare today's Internet to the Internet back in 1998 or so. Searching for something was hard, but people had "Links" sections on their sites, webrings and all that stuff. It was basically link hopping and reading. Now people go to youtube and make "FIRST!!!!111 ololololol" comments.

[Duelist]

i dont know what i've been told
but i'll never die and i'll never grow old

[Struwwelpeter]

Unfortunately we live in a nation of degenerates, a nation of pussified white men and women who have been scammed in to tech-jobs (fag jobs), greenism (bullshit), vegetarianism (degeneratism), anti-racism (joke), homosexuality and leftism.

[FrY]

FACT.
In reality most people have a very poor memory, or processing ablity to store what they are bombarded with, result a disorentated state unable to cope or understand the world around them.

Whats going to happen will with some skill you will survive the sheepel world and use the knowledge you've obtained to grow that thing resting on your neck.

The green movement will is a schamo used to distract us from much more important matters that could use there own thread. Like the femenization of men.

Most people dont change only what they buy, unless the universe shows the right factors for real change. Astroid, sun EmP pulse, earthquake what ever.


The green movement is a marketing trend based off of real world ecological change.

/end coffee xanax spliff rant, man I got a good morning ritrual.


/oh after reading what Jim said my reply was uneeded.

[Struwwelpeter]

Your reply was more than necessary and well-thought out. The more logic on this forum the better.

[Phlegm!]

The degenerates today are lacking the insight required for critical analysis; no longer are they sentient in trying to decode, vivisect and digest sources or other forms of medium available to them. They are spoon fed the answers, never refuting the possibility of what being preached to them could be an abridged or false statement; passed on from generation to generation of 'chinese whispers'. I'm exhibit A, as I'm still in school, and the most teachers will give you is the practical stuff; the rudimentary techniques needed to survive in this world, but not prosper, and they don't let you know that "the proof in the pudding is the eating", as the degree of truth is often altered or simplified, because the youth feel stressed out with a ton of workload. There's been a significant decadence in society, as many youths are apathetic towards even reading books, and this further depicts how my generation is falling short and going down the tubes as we lack the ability of challenging things, and putting the time in to investigating them. This gives way to a rise in pseudo-intelligence, as the media is instrumental in selecting and constructing the criteria for an 'Intelligent' individual. Everything is processed and produced, without shrewd people wondering where it all came from. It's quite disheartening to be honest...Many don't even realize how detrimental it is, and I'm 15 years old and can still see it happening.

[FrY]

Jim I dont know how well your hearing is, beacuse im not you.

But do you constently pick up on the god damn subliminals in the commericals.

One SMALL example.

At the end of a Mac comerical you quickly hear, Imma MAC , Im a Megan. No what do you think will sink into your sub-consious thus programing you.

This shit is everywear.

Btw bro whats in your WALLET, like I need a commerical playing on peoples insucurities.

YOu can only laugh at the fools for so long before you wanna knock a white collar criminal out.

[FrY]

The degenerates today are lacking the insight required for critical analysis; no longer are they sentient in trying to decode, vivisect and digest sources or other forms of medium available to them. They are spoon fed the answers, never refuting the possibility of what being preached to them could be an abridged or false statement; passed on from generation to generation of 'chinese whispers'. I'm exhibit A, as I'm still in school, and the most teachers will give you is the practical stuff; the rudimentary techniques needed to survive in this world, but not prosper, and they don't let you know that "the proof in the pudding is the eating", as the degree of truth is often altered or simplified, because the youth feel stressed out with a ton of workload. There's been a significant decadence in society, as many youths are apathetic towards even reading books, and this further depicts how my generation is falling short and going down the tubes as we lack the ability of challenging things, and putting the time in to investigating them. This gives way to a rise in pseudo-intelligence, as the media is instrumental in selecting and constructing the criteria for an 'Intelligent' individual. Everything is processed and produced, without shrewd people wondering where it all came from. It's quite disheartening to be honest...Many don't even realize how detrimental it is, and I'm 15 years old and can still see it happening.


Man When I was 15 I could tell the world was teetering into the wrong winds, 5 years later im 20 And I was Dead on....Good luck with the days dont give young padwan.

[Death_Merchant]

I don't really feel the ignorance of the masses is a bad thing though. Maybe I'm a bit of an elitist, but I feel the the masses are pretty retarded, and I see them as nothing more than a resource. If we really educated them on things, they'd really cause a lot of shit. The more we can keep them fixated on bullshit, the less they get in the way of the mechanics of the world. Plus, I'm very certain the majority of the people who are running media and controlling the easy information, are those who are indeed educated thinkers. I think this is a beautiful system. Honestly, these people couldn't think for themselves anyways, and they're actually pretty ineffective at making any kind of change.

The world simply has to work a certain way. The fact is, to manage the systems that keep people fed, give them jobs, organize resources, etc; requires keeping them in the dark about those workings. Mainly because they're too complex for idiots to understand. People seem to think these systems are evil, but really they're just necessary. Whenever people start to learn about how these things work but are too dumb to understand them; they say the dumbest shit. You know the,"We should get rid of the monetary system", "We could easily create world peace", etc. Seriously, if things were that simple, we would have done this already. Nobody is exploiting things, it's really just that hard to manage the world and keep everyone happy. Whenever someone says, " The simple solution would be", I just shake my head. That's why we just keep them occupied with them thinking they're saving the world by recycling their pop cans, and their sponsoring a child in Africa will make a difference. It's all just there to simply keep them out of the way, and there has always been something to do this so the business of the world can be conducted.

[Yggdrasil]

The proletariat will never rise above itself unless spurred by revolution... *sigh*

[FrY]

I agree with death_merchant, there are many people to take advantage of. Not always is progressing above others a bad way to survive and enjoy wealth is great and can come in many forms.

Just find your niche take hold and grow on.

These things are not bad, only the way power is used can be counter-productive.

No need to shout, but.
Over and out.

[Syphilis]

I don't really feel the ignorance of the masses is a bad thing though. Maybe I'm a bit of an elitist, but I feel the the masses are pretty retarded, and I see them as nothing more than a resource. If we really educated them on things, they'd really cause a lot of shit. The more we can keep them fixated on bullshit, the less they get in the way of the mechanics of the world.

Exactly, most people will ever rise above their ignorance.

Which is how I like it, it's more for everyone who sees how things work.

It's not unfair, it's their own fault they're ignorant.