ZyyzYzzy
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Does nearly everyone under 24 seem autistic to you?
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Dyvim
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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This isn't a bad thing...
I'm 30 now so I guess I'm a little older than this group everyone is shitting on, but you all come across as just shitty old people. 80% of people suck. That's going to hold true for all eternity. I have a decent number of friends 25 or under and some of them are "farther along" in life than I am. Already own houses and shit. Fucking Ohio.
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Frenzied Wombat
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You'd think, but in actuality the ability to retain and value information is related to the effort put into it. Going down to the library and finding the book you needed almost guaranteed you retained the information, now it's all in one ear and out the other-- an endless deluge of information at your fingertips.
Think of it this way. Despite autocorrect flashing the correct spelling on the screen for every typo, why do people today write and spell far worse than they did just 30 years ago, let alone 100 years ago? Because people would have to look up the correct spelling in a dictionary-- now people just glance at the autocorrect and don't even bother mentally retaining the correct spelling.
I'm not saying the net benefit is negative, it certainly isn't, but the irony is that though we have instant access to endless amounts of information, we don't bother actually retaining much of it simply by virtue of it being so easily accessible.
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The culture media now promotes rewards without effort.
Newest star wars: female abandoned child-> can fly ships, repair everything, fight with swords.
New Iron man is a black teen with single mom (despite evidence that single parent children are vastly more prone to become criminals and have lower IQ)
Single artist in NYC: has huge apartment.
Newest star wars: female abandoned child-> can fly ships, repair everything, fight with swords.
New Iron man is a black teen with single mom (despite evidence that single parent children are vastly more prone to become criminals and have lower IQ)
Single artist in NYC: has huge apartment.
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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Haha this kinda shit has been going on forever. Ever watch Friends? How the fuck did a barista afford to live in that dope NY apartment?
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It was one of their grandmothers in a rent-controlled apt they were illegally subletting. Bro do you even Friends?
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kegkilla
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Actually... I think we need to expand on this. What the fuck were you doing hanging around people 24 years and younger? Hitting on high school girls at the mall?
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kegkilla
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Mist works in a call center. Not typically the kind of place that college kids look at for a summer internship, unless their names are Narashaya and Jinyeesh.
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Soygen
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Lithose
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“[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”― Albert Einstein
(IE Never memorize what you can look up).
Kids not knowing facts directly doesn't really bother me. I've always felt being intelligent was more about 1.) Realizing you probably aren't right on your first assumption. 2.) Thinking critically and being skeptical. 3.) Learning how to look up and aggregate sources so you can be reasonably assured of getting the right answer.(And actually taking the time to do it)
The only issue with young people today is the same issue most people have, they shit the bed with all three of those things, but especially three. I think the little online communities have made number 3 even more difficult...Even reasonably smart people who think they are being skeptical go to trash places for bad information.
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Sentagur
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Frenzied Wombat
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Well, when I'm referencing "retention" I'm not referring to rote memorization, and in the context of intelligence, understanding the "scientific method" is certainly more beneficial intelligence wise than memorizing Boyle's law. So their is no doubt that college education is more about learning to learn than it is memorizing historical dates or formulas.
But #3 makes my point. You had to put EFFORT going to the library, and the library wasn't filled with history books written by Salon magazine. You not only retained the information, but the information was generally correct (or at least widely accepted). You read the entire article/journal, as well as a few others, because fuck you already spent the time taking the bus down to the library, right? Now you just Google it, read the first article (maybe by Salon, maybe by some basement Lumie), absorb the few sentences, and probably accept that as fact/gospel before being distracted by a Twitter pop up.
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Alex
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Google University is pretty dope though. You can learn anything. I've learned so much about cooking, mixology (I hate that term but it's better than "bartending") and front/back end development from Googling shit. You don't even need to go to school anymore - especially in the development world. We just hired a guy who doesn't even have a degree but wrote some dope shit on his own from learning everything from the Internet. But I guess he's just another shitty 25 year old.
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Excidium
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I'm getting sick of people calling everybody autistic. I grew up with my younger brother who has high functioning autism. Up here I Canada people who get that designation are mentally retarded. It was pure hell for my family to readjust to train him how to look after himself. All these idiot ass millennials are not autistic, they just have some traits but it isn't a disability. And I have been around a dozen actual autistic people and they act nothing like all the "autistic" people I see on YouTube that most people agree must be retarded.
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