The Foolish Generation
We have had the Flapper Era, the Depression Kids, the Baby Boomers, the "Me" generation, the Beat Generation, Gen X, etc.
What do we call the current crop of young adults? How will they be known. I suggest that the label "The Foolish Generation" might well apply.
1. Social networking-Children barely into puberty are posting onto Facebook, MySpace and other social interaction sites text and pictures of themselves that open them up to assault, kidnapping, rape and murder. And that information will be there for years to come. A prospective employer, college admission office, future father or mother-in-law can read stuff that you would never want then to see. And from the writing styles I have seen, they will label you as a total waste of time and effort.
2. Tattoos and piercings- Look cool and let you see a moment in your life. SURE! And is that moment going to be something that you really want to remember 15 years from now?
"Well people ought to be fair and not pass judgement on my lifestyle. If I want to ink up, what business is it of my employer?"
Remember that he is paying you to represent his business, not your spur-of-the-moment snap decision when you were high. If you are sleeved out with a bunch of poorly executed tats, who wants you to work for them. "Love" and "hate" on your fingers will not lead you to the executive floor. Teardrops from your eyes won't get any sympathy from the loan officer, scholarship committee, or H.R. department head.
3. Cell phones, texting, etc.- You already have a strike against you as being a young, inexperienced driver. Don't compound the problem by talking or texting while you are driving. The funeral home already has plenty of business, why add to it?
4. Casual unprotected sex- There are STDs out there that they haven't named, much less found a cure for. Saying "It's not as intense wearing a condom!" seems to pale in comparison to having it fall off when penicilin doesn't work.
5. Drugs - They are expensive, they will hold you in bondage, destroy your health and kill you.
Why go through that?
6. Driving and/or walking while plugged in - Living in a University town I see countless ex high school seniors walking around campus and the city streets deeply immersed in their I Pods, Walkmans, or other music players, with the dual umbilical cords screwed into each ear tightly so the 150Db "music" won't leak out. Unfortunately, street noise doesn't leak in either, and they are totally unaware of vehicular traffic. This would only be a problem at intersections, but these babes in the woods don't understand the difference between streets and sidewalks. They will walk right up the center of a street with their back to the traffic in total oblivion. I guess that it is the school's way of getting rid of the Darwin Award candidates without having to flunk them and lose the tuition money.
And the drivers who are so distracted that they run stoplights 10 seconds after they have changed color need to wake up before they kill a pedestrian who was obeying the law (almost an oxymoron) and was crossing the street in the walkway, with the light).
Trying to keep the funeral home's business at a minimum, I am,
Winter Owl
What do we call the current crop of young adults? How will they be known. I suggest that the label "The Foolish Generation" might well apply.
1. Social networking-Children barely into puberty are posting onto Facebook, MySpace and other social interaction sites text and pictures of themselves that open them up to assault, kidnapping, rape and murder. And that information will be there for years to come. A prospective employer, college admission office, future father or mother-in-law can read stuff that you would never want then to see. And from the writing styles I have seen, they will label you as a total waste of time and effort.
2. Tattoos and piercings- Look cool and let you see a moment in your life. SURE! And is that moment going to be something that you really want to remember 15 years from now?
"Well people ought to be fair and not pass judgement on my lifestyle. If I want to ink up, what business is it of my employer?"
Remember that he is paying you to represent his business, not your spur-of-the-moment snap decision when you were high. If you are sleeved out with a bunch of poorly executed tats, who wants you to work for them. "Love" and "hate" on your fingers will not lead you to the executive floor. Teardrops from your eyes won't get any sympathy from the loan officer, scholarship committee, or H.R. department head.
3. Cell phones, texting, etc.- You already have a strike against you as being a young, inexperienced driver. Don't compound the problem by talking or texting while you are driving. The funeral home already has plenty of business, why add to it?
4. Casual unprotected sex- There are STDs out there that they haven't named, much less found a cure for. Saying "It's not as intense wearing a condom!" seems to pale in comparison to having it fall off when penicilin doesn't work.
5. Drugs - They are expensive, they will hold you in bondage, destroy your health and kill you.
Why go through that?
6. Driving and/or walking while plugged in - Living in a University town I see countless ex high school seniors walking around campus and the city streets deeply immersed in their I Pods, Walkmans, or other music players, with the dual umbilical cords screwed into each ear tightly so the 150Db "music" won't leak out. Unfortunately, street noise doesn't leak in either, and they are totally unaware of vehicular traffic. This would only be a problem at intersections, but these babes in the woods don't understand the difference between streets and sidewalks. They will walk right up the center of a street with their back to the traffic in total oblivion. I guess that it is the school's way of getting rid of the Darwin Award candidates without having to flunk them and lose the tuition money.
And the drivers who are so distracted that they run stoplights 10 seconds after they have changed color need to wake up before they kill a pedestrian who was obeying the law (almost an oxymoron) and was crossing the street in the walkway, with the light).
Trying to keep the funeral home's business at a minimum, I am,
Winter Owl
