That “Every time I try to get ahead, something or somebody stops me.” graph is TELLING. Some of my friends laugh at me when I say social media is the devil and toxic. I feel real bad for the younger generation today. Part of the blame goes directly to the parents who are MY age. Terrible.
That “Every time I try to get ahead, something or somebody stops me.” graph is TELLING.
Some of my friends laugh at me when I say social media is the devil and toxic. I feel real bad for the younger generation today. Part of the blame goes directly to the parents who are MY age. Terrible.
Exactly! While my husband and I raised our own kids to think responsibly, I do feel my generation is responsible for the indoctrination that is happening with their children today. It is my generation’s hippies and flower-children (a cohort I never joined myself) who never really matured into the level of responsibility required to acquire a healthy “internal locus of control”. They think the two opposite loci of controls are equivalent and normal. These are the same people who believe “feelings” (THEIRS) are what really matters, not doings, happenings, attitudes. And everything outside of them makes them _feel_! So they are constantly at the effect of life rather than stepping up and causing their own lives to be happy. In my experience (72 years worth), such people tend to fall into the progressive camps as well and want government to make everything equal. They helicopter-parent their kids who live in their basements into their 30s. Their offspring are also the people who run Silicon Valley and ALL our social media, as well as news media and they do it all from their diseased external locus of control viewpoints. Their parents long ago abandoned JFK’s admonition to “Ask not what your country can do for you…” It’s all about themselves.
I’m sorry…. I could really get carried away here. Suffice to say, I appreciate what you wrote and it is such a validating relief to hear from so many like-minded others.
That “Every time I try to get ahead, something or somebody stops me.” graph is TELLING.
Some of my friends laugh at me when I say social media is the devil and toxic. I feel real bad for the younger generation today. Part of the blame goes directly to the parents who are MY age. Terrible.
Yeah, I think SM is a tool of Satan. I’m not sure Satan exists, and Jon Haidt certainly doesn’t believe in Satan, but I’m open :)
Exactly! While my husband and I raised our own kids to think responsibly, I do feel my generation is responsible for the indoctrination that is happening with their children today. It is my generation’s hippies and flower-children (a cohort I never joined myself) who never really matured into the level of responsibility required to acquire a healthy “internal locus of control”. They think the two opposite loci of controls are equivalent and normal. These are the same people who believe “feelings” (THEIRS) are what really matters, not doings, happenings, attitudes. And everything outside of them makes them _feel_! So they are constantly at the effect of life rather than stepping up and causing their own lives to be happy. In my experience (72 years worth), such people tend to fall into the progressive camps as well and want government to make everything equal. They helicopter-parent their kids who live in their basements into their 30s. Their offspring are also the people who run Silicon Valley and ALL our social media, as well as news media and they do it all from their diseased external locus of control viewpoints. Their parents long ago abandoned JFK’s admonition to “Ask not what your country can do for you…” It’s all about themselves.
I’m sorry…. I could really get carried away here. Suffice to say, I appreciate what you wrote and it is such a validating relief to hear from so many like-minded others.
Yesterday's hippies have become today's authoritarians.
Not fond'a Jane, myself. 😏