Today's society and our generation.

What do you all think about soctiey as a whole today?
Do you think we're becoming too accepting, or not accepting enough?
What do you think about your generation?
Do you think we get it easier than the last?

Personally, society as a whole today is getting too selfish.
It's all about number one, and it doesn't matter who, what or how we take over.
And we only give if we get back.

And I also think that our generation is lazy.
The obesity crisis is getting bigger and the figures are getting higher, and nobody does anything that we used to anymore.
My mom who was born in the sixties, says that even in the eighites and ninties, kids were still playing in the streets and there wasn't the dangers there are today. People were healthier and fitter.

Why do you think this is?
Do you think that it's the result of today's society that our generation is lazy?
Do you think that society and our generation are taking each other down?
How can we stop this from happening?

i think the next generation is going to be lazy because of the technolgy

I think society as a whole is going way down hill. People aren't accepting of different things, and although they are more accepting then they were years ago, we've still got a long way to go. People are too lazy to just take a walk. And also, people want to be accepted in society, so they won't go against things.
My mom explained to me about how kids' parents at my school won't protest about things going wrong with the school, such as the amount of homework we're given every night and how stupid the maps we did in sixth grade were. People want to be accepted, so they don't do things to stand out. Personally, I think it's pathetic.
I don't think there's any way to stop society as a whole, and I don't think our generation is going to be able to handle it and everything will just fall apart slowly....

I think that our generation is pretty irresponsible. Yesterday, during math class, my teacher complained that only half of her students did a certain homework assignment, which consisted of only four problems. She indicated that at this rate, as full grown adults, half of us won't be able to take responsibility for simple things. While I love computers, and think they're very helpful and great for knowing what's going on in the world, I think we've become too dependent on computers, television, cell phones, etc. If half of the people in our age group are that lazy, our world will be very corrupt when we're older.

Society is just going down. There's no respect for anyone or anything. Our enviroment, our resources, and, just, people.

People take care of themselves and nobody else. It's as if everyone holds a knife behind their back, and when they stab you, they get ahead.

I'm amazed humans haven't died out yet.

Society in this generation is already embarassing and degrading. imagine the NEXT generation.

bloodredruby69:

The flaw isn't in our society or in our generation; it's in mankind in general. When a species has the ability to do what we do, we get arrogant, ignorant and defensive.

We believe ourselves to be better and better off than the rest of the animal kingdom, but in no other species is there the ability to hate, judge, or discriminate.

We are our own worst enemy, and one day, it WILL end up killing us. I just hope that I'm gone by the time that happens.

That's what I think - but also that people have a habit of doing exactly what is bad for them, even if they are told not to. It's a flaw in the human nature, not society or a particular generation.
To me, the only reason it seems like it's our generation are the laziest generation ever is because technology has developed so much that we rely on it . Our very lives depend on technology so we seem lazier than previous generations.
You'll see, in 20 years time, kids then will seem so much lazier than we do.

Compared to 5 decades ago, this generation is so much more free and liable, Eg, all a young person 9-16 has to do is stay up late and flcik through random channels and then come across porn, this generation is to open and children are exposed to much more, wich in a way is good, but can be bad, 5 decades ago, schooling was stricter, there was no internet, sky TV & porno magazines on full view of children in the news agents..

Ignorance is a big problem.
Other then that, probably the simple fact that nobody cares about anybody but themselves.

THIS soctiey IS FUCKED UP. end of story

What do you all think about soctiey as a whole today? Society? Oh dear god. It's oh-so-messed up.
Do you think we're becoming too accepting, or not accepting enough? We're still not accepting enough.
What do you think about your generation? We're more accepting than the last generation. But we focus too much on skin-deep beauty.
Do you think we get it easier than the last? Yeah, teachers are supposed to "nurture" us instead of just teaching us 1+1, we've got counselours, medicines, psychotherapists, whatever.
Do you think that it's the result of today's society that our generation is lazy? The fact that our generation is lazy IS society.
Do you think that society and our generation are taking each other down? No, we ARE society...it's a horrible thing.
How can we stop this from happening? Ever seen the video for This Is The End by Anti-Flag? How about we actually start trying to help #2 and #3 and #2,003,474,374 instead of just #1?

I think were becoming way too pc and way too lazy. Sometimes the truth hurts and we don't need people to try to paint a better picture of something when it's not. Hey were self medicating every little thing, and nobody is dealing with thier true problems. i could go on for hours, but I really think that the genral public should wake the fuck up.

What do you all think about soctiey as a whole today?
To be honest it has gone down hill from when I was a kid. God I sound old! But it's true, when I was a kid I would run around and be happy to hang outside with my friends, but these days when kids are outside they are usually in a bad neighbourhood and out with there younger brothers and sisters. (Certain areas of Glasgow do have this). So it's going down hill, and I get the feeling that no one really knows what to do about it.

Do you think we're becoming too accepting, or not accepting enough?
I think it swings both ways for that. In the UK if someone does something bad, like steals from an elderly person they will pretty much get a slap on the wrist and some jail time. At the same time they are not accepting homosexuals getting married and adopting babies.

What do you think about your generation?
I'm grateful to have been born in my generation than I am to be born in my wee sisters generation. No generation is perfect, but I got to go outside and play with my friends with out too much worry about some man coming to pick us off the streets and leave us for dead - well that would be our parent's who worried, but they didn't worry about us because we were in a group. But the gap of this is close to that of my sister so they may well be blured to become the same.

Do you think we get it easier than the last?
Swings both ways again for this one. You don't due to the fact that a lot of people don't feel safe to wander about the streets during the day (again, refering to Glasgow, or the UK) due to neds and the like, also the amount of computer games and stuff that's all coming out isn't doing any good to the health of the kids today either. Upon saying that computer games aren't exactly what people could call the route of all evil; kids are playing on the PSP more due to them being unable to go outside because there neighbourhood isn't as nice as it was before.

Why do you think this is?
As stated above, due to anti-social behaviour, ie neds; and kids not feeling like they are safe as are there parent's.

Do you think that it's the result of today's society that our generation is lazy?
I think everyone has started to get lazy due to so many things being made to make life easier; most homes have a washer and dryer and a dishwasher. And they may have a computer with internet access too. It's everyone blaming everyone else for the problems that are occuring today, and the youth are the one's who are getting the blame.

Do you think that society and our generation are taking each other down?
Yes.

How can we stop this from happening?
People need to be told that the stuff that is happening isn't just isolated to one group; obsiety is happening to everyone, not just to one group, anti-social behaviour is again not subjected to one social group. The full fact should be pointed out for people to be able to see what is happening to the world as a whole.

Personally, I think we are currently - as in right now, 2007, in the Golden Age.

Imagine a line graph of the quality of life. Since the dawn of time the line has been steadily climbing, what with new inventions life has become easier, and the line on the graph will have gone higher.
At some point it will start to fall, you know, when society collapses on itself - this could be from global warming, a world war, a general revolution etc. After this point, the line on the graph will continue to fall until the human race ceases to exist.
So the graph will look like a triangle. The top point of the triangle will evidently be The Golden Age. So lets say society crumbles in about, say one hundred years - doesn't that mean we're at the top of the graph right now? Things have never been better, and we are just now getting an outlook of things are going to get worse.
Seriously, this is The Golden Age. Lets party.

I don't belive it's so much as our Next Generation which will lead us intro trouble but our society now. Our Society now is leaving problems for the Next Generation to deal with, cause we simply don't want to, or can't.

Next generation will have to deal with global warming issues, oil-subsitutes, land fills...etc, we're just racking things up for the future to deal with.

Is the society better now in the past? I say it doesn't change too much at all, knowledge=power, power=chaos...in my view anyways. Last century we had 2 world wars and other major fighting events, as the years goes on it's not as likely to break out. If another world war starts, nukes could blow the world apart...and everyone tries staying on as much defence as possible. So I don't see war doing any REAL harm and danger to us....

I don't belive it's so much as our Next Generation which will lead us intro trouble but our society now. Our Society now is leaving problems for the Next Generation to deal with, cause we simply don't want to, or can't.

Next generation will have to deal with global warming issues, oil-subsitutes, land fills...etc, we're just racking things up for the future to deal with.

Is the society better now in the past? I say it doesn't change too much at all, knowledge=power, power=chaos...in my view anyways. Last century we had 2 world wars and other major fighting events, as the years goes on it's not as likely to break out. If another world war starts, nukes could blow the world apart...and everyone tries staying on as much defence as possible. So I don't see war doing any REAL harm and danger to us....

To be honest, I absolutely hate this generation. Most people are unbelievably ignorant and only care about themselves. Getting what the want when they want it has made them selfish and stupid. The next generation will have to clean up our mess - and they won't, because they'll be even worse than we are.

We can all remember the nineties, right? Things were better then than the are now. I don't know why. New technology, all the wrong people have power. I think that a lot of people my age today have more money than is good for them - one reason why everything seems to go wrong...yeah.