Have times really changed? Or are people generally the same?
By buldwgz
@buldwgz (1489)
United States
March 1, 2007 9:03pm CST
I just would like to hear what you think. I think that people have really just stayed the same as the calander changes. People alway say kids today are bad, etc., but I argue that they have been the way they are forever. I mean, billy the kid was called the kid for a reason. People only lived into their 20s and 30s centuries ago, so the bad was done young. What are your views?
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@Erilyn (3020)
• United States
29 Mar 07
People are the same as they ever were really if you think about it. The same things that motivated people hundreds of years ago are still in evidence. The only difference is the way they go about getting what they want. And of course we hear about things more often because of the media.
@ycswid (279)
• Canada
2 Mar 07
I don't think that kids today are "bad" but I do think that times have changed. Parenting is not taken as seriously by more and more people. No stay at home parents anymore often means less guidance. Less guidance can only lead to problems. I don't think it ends with the parents though.
I really think that society in general has failed children. For the last many years children have been told "You can do anything" Well I'm sorry to burst your bubble but that's just not the case. Different people have different aptitudes and even different likes and dislikes which will lead them in particular directions.
There was a study done recently that stated that college students are more narcissistic than in previous generations. They are self-centered and as such I believe will make even worse parents than their own parents were. This is going to spiral out of control if we don't start to care about one another.
On an interesting side note I posted the other day asking if you could see evidence of people caring about each other and not surprisingly received no responses.
