Young people are incapable of recognizing their own enemy.
Mankind lived in total ignorance until very recently. (Proof: widespread racism, religious fundamentalism, mistreatment and oppression of women, European imperialism, rabid nationalism, xenophobia, etc. were all norms.) Young women and minorities are especially prone to gobble this idea up and congratulate themselves for being an enlightened member of a progressive society. In the interest of being liked and getting laid, young white men follow suit.
All types of ‘ignorance’ still exist today AND represent the primary threats to peace and stability. (Conclusion: Legislation to protect minorities (anti-hate, anti-religion) is natural progress and shall continue uninterrupted.) Religion has become like Al-Qaeda to today’s educated youth. It barely exists, but everyone is convinced it is a powerful beast capable of plucking a person out of his hedonistic bliss at any moment, if not carefully watched.
Sexual restraint can no longer be taken seriously, as it was an invention of religion to control the masses and women in particular. (Conclusion: Get it when you can, while you can. It’s practice for someone you might really like someday!) There is a tremendous amount of pressure on young women to be able to “handle” emotion-free sex.
They have been convinced, mostly through entertainment media, that taking sex seriously is a weakness. It is a bodily need detached from the rest of you. Combined with a social scene set around alcohol, young love is a messy, schizophrenic story where one is very lucky to find someone on the same page.
Total Moral Relativity : there are no absolute truths, there is no reason to believe in anything too strongly, everything is circumstantial. (Conclusion: yes, everything is corrupt. It has always been that way. Power corrupts. We’re selfish. People are assholes. I’m an asshole, at least I’m willing to admit it.) Result: attitudes are uniform within social groups.
Politics and religion are not to be discussed amongst friends, therefore they are not. Ever. (Conclusion: agree to disagree. Result: Even the smartest people are never exposed to ideas outside of the mainstream media/academia, but you cannot convince them of this.)
Well, most of the “truths” are just generalizations with no truth anyway, and as such the competing view point is equally trivial.
The belief that this a progressive era and the history yields no wisdom is a harmful belief, but nonetheless it is harmful to ignore recent developments in philosophy.
Why privilege Absolutist beliefs above relativity? Both schools of thought are ancient and have many brilliant men in their support.
As you can make these statements for the majority, I would agree, there are some youth today that break away from the ignorance and pure selfishness that plague humanity.
Fuck all you can while you can, if a girl doesnt want to then manipulate her until you get her friend to. Oh wait that is what a fucking douche bag who deserves a life time of anal rape in a mexican prison would say? =)
My personal opinion on one subject. I love people who think because they are horny bastards or liberal douche bags they can tell everyone else they should fuck their brains out because sex doesn’t mean anything…not like you should base it on anything other than thinking the other person is hot.Maybe im just a sensitive guy.
I don’t really know where to start, I guess its completely accurate if he’s describing highly educated yet politically and historically ignorant, American, right wing atheists who have never discussed religion. I guess that’s the standard young person these days, odd how I have never met anyone matching that description. How’s this for recognising an enemy: some fucktard who thinks he can define the beliefs of a massive cross section of society in 6 bullet points.
Young people are incapable of recognizing their own enemy.[/quote]
Did you mean to say “Young people are incapable of recognizing that they are their own enemy”?
Or is there some universal enemy that all young people are supposed to recognize?
Young people are incapable of recognizing their own enemy.[/quote]
Did you mean to say “Young people are incapable of recognizing that they are their own enemy”?
Or is there some universal enemy that all young people are supposed to recognize?[/quote]
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
‘youth’ and ‘thought’ dont exactly go together. At least not in my city. Everyday I lose a little more faith in society.[/quote]
Yeah same here.
And I pretty much agree with all 6 of the statements.
