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Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
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brainiac3397
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Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
socialists. hurr hurr.
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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RE: Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
Jeanyus.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
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RE: Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
(10-18-2015 09:56 AM)schoolsux Wrote: (10-18-2015 06:42 AM)Joker Wrote: A modern, Western problem... Years to come, there will be studies of how human nature has changed.
- Media indoctrination - subliminal messages, disinfo, the altering of brain waves
- The belief that material wealth and social status = self worth
- Over-prescription of psychotropic drugs
- An increasing dependence and addiction to television, Internet, video games, and phones
- The public education system and the deliberate dumbing down of young people
Human nature has changed for the worse. In some ways.
That list is pretty much correct. Drugs are way overprescribed. I believe that the media is trying to make us all Democrat. Particularly with gun control, but here are MANY others.
Yep, I am addicted to the Internet. I spend pretty much all of my life outside of school, homework and band (all 4 kinds available) on the Internet. It's pretty common these days.
Uh no lol. Literally a majority of shady news publications tend to be very conservative leaning and generally distort facts in order to push an agenda. Alex Jones himself has been described by his lawyer as playing a caricature. I love brainiac's response to this.
Again this really isn't nothing very new... people have been indoctrinated for a very long time, since the days of Rome and Greece... just recognize the patterns and be "free", whatever that is.
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RE: Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
The nature lays in the consumers. Liberal propaganda doesnt survive long cuz liberals tend to be "hey, is this legit? Where them facts?". Why do you think right-wing bullshit is the biggest selling propaganda in the form of radio and TV and facebook? Cause conservatives are less likely to question and more likely to OBEY.
Its the psychology of the ideology. Those who seek tradition arent going to question the who, what, and why of the rhetoric they get fed. All they need is somebody to blame for lying to them ie the left. Sure, you may encounter a radical liberal who rejects questions, but you may also encounter social conservatives who arent idiots. Both are not mainstream though.
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Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
IIRC back in the the olden days political ideas in the South would literally be "NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER" before it had to be changed to something along the lines of "let's give ourselves states rights so we can segregate" to be more PC. Then after that it became "uh we'll cut all these programs and do this and that" and suddenly you realize the issue.
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Why are kids in the teenage years such assholes?
Bec's of genes? Maybe?
Or what we call "asshole" stage...
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