Does It Worry You How Much the Young Have Not Lived Through?

Pre-nuclear-bomb WWII generations didn't have to worry about mankind suddenly destroying itself.
 

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VintageBetter said:
Gosh, I was trying to watch some cable TV news and blam, that’s it, I had to shut it off. SO MUCH HYPERBOLE over current events. So much obsession. Makes me wish for a hurricane or major earthquake so they’d think of something else to cover.

The young, they have never seen the Vietnam War on the news nightly, never seen the shootings of RFK, MLK, or even Reagan. Never saw the 1968 Convention or Nixon resign on air. It’s always shocking when it happens, but it's OK. The person in question is OK now. The other person also did not die - he’s just retiring. IT’S GOING TO BE OK. The system, is designed so it will be OK.

I just want them all to freakin’ MEDITATE once an hour and during commercial breaks. Calm the **** down!

Anyway, I know it’s all Hysteria to get People to Tune In, but Lord I am sick and tired of it.

I think so many of these younger reporters really need to have served a year in Haiti or Venezuela. Then they could see what real internal chaos is.
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chic said:
The young will make their own world and set their own destinies. They always do and many are more involved and smart than we think. BF has three grandsons. They're ok.

My grandparents lived through such extraordinary changes and calamities I don;t know how they did it. The technological changes earthquakes, economic depression, world wars, it makes me scream to think of it. But they were always patient and understanding with me. Maybe that's what we should do for the young of this generation. Just be there to support and guide if they want it.
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They did it when the US dollar was still strong.
And houses were affordable to American workers.
And they didn't have to compete with a flood of illegal immigrants.
And they had friends like them who also had decent jobs.

There are more, but so few know anything about economics that it would be a waste of time.

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No...it worries me what my grandchildren and other young people I know have to face in this day and age. We never had to worry about being shot and killed when we went to school or work. We never had to worry about someone killing our parents when they were at work. We could walk down the street, even late at night without fear of being assaulted. I remember doing that in my 20's when we went clubbing. Neither my (then) BFF or I drove. You couldn't pay me to do that on those streets now; they are now considered bad areas.

The young people are going to find it hard to pay living expenses unless they are blessed to have high paying jobs or move to areas where housing is much cheaper. Competition for work is no longer local or national, it's now global. Environmental changes will also be affecting where they can live. My granddaughter is living on campus at Stockton University in Atlantic City, N.J (AC). As of now, she'd like to continue to live and work down there once she graduates. AC is one of the many N.J. towns that's predicted to be underwater by 2050. That timeline was moved up from the end of the century. It may be moved up again, who knows.
 
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I've recently been watching a Millennial react to the Austin Powers movies on YouTube. It is scary how many comedic references to popular culture go zoom right over her head.

It's crazy how fast so much of our past is disappearing. Common gags, slang, and memes are fading - only to be replaced by utterly opaque new creations: Skibidi. Mewing. Sigma. Bussin'. Cheugy. Yeet. It's like some other language.
 
i worry about my daughters not the world of youth. I don’t worry about the world, society or total strangers. I am concerned about what is most relevant to me.
 
I've struggled over the years to understand why young people are unhappy, depressed, spending so much time escaping into video games.

This video points out the problem with messages that continually offer bleak outlooks for the future in order to make people more dependent on their leaders.

I'm not a political person nor am I particularly religious. But I can see how a bleak outlook destroys optimism from a psychological standpoint.

 
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Yeah, kids used to look toward space travel with hope. But even recent versions of "Star Trek" loosely based on the original are so preachy and gloomy they're difficult to watch.

Other kids wanted to build things, or become doctors, or firemen, or scientists. Now the messages all deprecate that and the only "heroes" left to them are sports figures propped up by organized crime.

Girls are fed the line that being a homemaker or mother is somehow shameful and "not good enough." Even nursing is looked down upon.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
No...it worries me what my grandchildren and other young people I know have to face in this day and age. We never had to worry about being shot and killed when we went to school or work. We never had to worry about someone killing our parents when they were at work. We could walk down the street, even late at night without fear of being assaulted. I remember doing that in my 20's when we went clubbing. Neither my (then) BFF or I drove. You couldn't pay me to do that on those streets now; they are now considered bad areas.

The young people are going to find it hard to pay living expenses unless they are blessed to have high paying jobs or move to areas where housing is much cheaper. Competition for work is no longer local or national, it's now global. Environmental changes will also be affecting where they can live. My granddaughter is living on campus at Stockton University in Atlantic City, N.J (AC). As of now, she'd like to continue to live and work down there once she graduates. AC is one of the many N.J. towns that's predicted to be underwater by 2050. That timeline was moved up from the end of the century. It may be moved up again, who knows.
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Well, I was one of the “lucky” ones (sarcasm). I worked in a very gang infiltrated area in the early 00s. I just didn’t know any better and they hired me in spite of my ignorance.

I didn’t worry so much about being killed, but looking back I think that was sheer ignorance. I did begin to worry about my personal safety however. I never told anyone at the school district that. They would have laughed at me.

I have LONG thought that teaching is one of the only jobs where workplace violence IS tolerated, whether it’s internal fights between the kids or external forces entering to shoot. The workplace violence is tolerated.
 
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OldFeller said:
I've struggled over the years to understand why young people are unhappy, depressed, spending so much time escaping into video games.

This video points out the problem with messages that continually offer bleak outlooks for the future in order to make people more dependent on their leaders.

I'm not a political person nor am I particularly religious. But I can see how a bleak outlook destroys optimism from a psychological standpoint.

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I watched a documentary last night, made by TMZ of all people, called "Tragically Viral".

I’ve seen this story over and over and over again in the news, but COME ON! Social media is KILLING our young people!

https://tubitv.com/movies/100009487/tmz-presents-tragically-viral

If you don’t spend hours on god-cursed TikTok or YouTube, be warned. The stuff you see in this documentary will break your heart. If you are on TikTok, which I will never be, you already know the bullcrap that goes on there. I applaud the proposed ban in the U.S. of TikTok. It can’t happen quickly enough.
 
CallMeKate said:
But so did I at 10. And 14. And 18. And 21... And truthfully 🤫 sometimes "old people" still get on my nerves. 🤷‍♀️
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I never had an internal dislike of the old when I was young. I always thought they had a lot to teach us if we’d only listen.
 

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