| largedarryl said: There are many things wrong with the Y generation and I'm sure I could rant for a long time about them, but I'll keep it short. In today's world there are no differences with yesterday's world, but only today the Y generation are unwilling to put the work in to get ahead in life. This mentality is furthered by the fact that most post-secondary students are capable of taking nothing for many semesters in a row, finally getting out with nothing more than an extended High School course are more than surprised when it means nothing in the real world. |
Did you forget your Depends today or what? You sound like an old man.
There isn't anything about the Y generation that is particularly different. Tell me one generation that hasn't complained about the generation before it being lazy, stupid, and worthless? Its just a myth that is perpetuated indefinitely that "kids these days don't work as hard as they used to."
The standards to graduate from college are higher than they used to be, and school is far more competitive than it used to be. I tell my parents about the stuff I learned in high school and college and they were amazed how little they actually learned in high school in comparison. Not to mention the law school I am going to teaches us way more than my father had to learn in the same amount of time because the job market has become so much more competitive.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
