Hate to say it, but I agree 100%. I've been intensely involved in the internet community since it was the BBS community in the 1980's, before browsers, before DSL, when dial-up was an agonizing 12KB download speed. I have to say that the current generation raised on the internet world are really a bunch of screwed up individuals, moreso than I noticed from past generations.
It's mostly their parents' faults, you know. Yuppie corporate-climbers had kids for the sake of having a status symbol; they never wanted to take the proper time to be parents. Instead, they allowed computer games & the internet to act as "babysitters" and moral guides. What they didn't consider was that when you allow an emotional and mental child to have unlimited access to information and other people who's moral standards are less than you own, there will be abuse. Bad behavior, a lack of a moral center, and less respect is the end product. Voila! Instant recipe for a lost generation.
I pray the parents of the future get a clue, before they pass on their uncivilized ways onto another generation.
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Date: 2009-02-27 06:53 pm (UTC)It's mostly their parents' faults, you know. Yuppie corporate-climbers had kids for the sake of having a status symbol; they never wanted to take the proper time to be parents. Instead, they allowed computer games & the internet to act as "babysitters" and moral guides. What they didn't consider was that when you allow an emotional and mental child to have unlimited access to information and other people who's moral standards are less than you own, there will be abuse. Bad behavior, a lack of a moral center, and less respect is the end product. Voila! Instant recipe for a lost generation.
I pray the parents of the future get a clue, before they pass on their uncivilized ways onto another generation.