That might be as I don't think they were ASSISTING in the destruction.Pre WWII generations didn't have to worry about mankind destroying itself.
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.
They did it when the US dollar was still strong.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.
Mr. Whitman is entitled to his opinion.
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.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.
I watched a documentary last night, made by TMZ of all people, called "Tragically Viral".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.
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.But so did I at 10. And 14. And 18. And 21... And truthfullysometimes "old people" still get on my nerves.
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