In all honesty, I truly do believe that it started with the WWII generation. The emergence of all of these new technologies at such low prices as well as an explosion of product manufacturing later on and the dropping of food rationing made it possible for the youth as well as adults to indulge in habits of materialism, gluttony and constant idleness if not filled by some sort of hobby.
In other words, kids don't have to spend their time toiling away on a farm anymore, or taking care of the household with Mom while Dad is away at work, raising the 5-6 kids, or going to work themselves to help Dad pay the bills because his hours got cut at the factory or he became injured.
As parents felt less and less comfortable with laying responsibilities on their children (possibly due to their lack of contentment with the responsibilities laid on them during their childhood) the child's role in the house was reduced to that of your common lake-variety leech.
The fact is that in the purpose of preserving happiness which is considered to be the cornerstone of childhood, we have reduced children to meaningless leeches. The children that you have dealt with probably have no responsibilities in their homes, and thus, no purpose for living, so why the hell should they care? The same Mother that gave birth to them, plunged them into a limbo in which the only goal they could have in their lives until they finish high school and the real world punches them in the face, is to seek pleasure.
If anything, I feel bad for the affected members of our generation. To live your life for the only purpose of pleasure, sheer pleasure alone, may seem awesome, but it takes a pretty highly developed mind to live such a life without falling into that limbo.
Unfortunately with child labor laws and all that feminist shit I think society's pretty much down the crapper.
I'm young but I would have much rather been born in the 1840s, at least what I've read and seen from Tom Sawyer and some various articles about those times it just seems like we would have been...more responsible.
Now I'm fucked and I can't undo the damage. I swear to the God I don't believe in I'm going to bring my kids up roughly. FUQ DA PO-PO
That's not what I am conveying at all. Women should have every right to work and children should not be forced to work in factories doing jobs that are beyond their capacity.
I just think that we, as a society, need to remember where our true priorities should lie and learn that no lifestyle is without some sort of consequence and that we must ask ourselves whether we'd be able to cope with said consequences, especially when it comes to bringing innocent children into.the equation.
To some degree I must agree though. One aspect of feminism that I believe has done more harm than good is choice of mate being based solely upon love or lust when niether quality alone will feed the children that she wishes to have and the mentality that "I don't need a man". A woman may not need a man but having two parents in the household would greatly benefit the child.
Overall, though, across all genders and races in the developed world, there is a degree of selfishness we must get over if we wish to have a more successful society. It's becoming glaringly obvious that our personal desires may not be good for everyone else.
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In all honesty, I truly do believe that it started with the WWII generation. The emergence of all of these new technologies at such low prices as well as an explosion of product manufacturing later on and the dropping of food rationing made it possible for the youth as well as adults to indulge in habits of materialism, gluttony and constant idleness if not filled by some sort of hobby.
In other words, kids don't have to spend their time toiling away on a farm anymore, or taking care of the household with Mom while Dad is away at work, raising the 5-6 kids, or going to work themselves to help Dad pay the bills because his hours got cut at the factory or he became injured.
As parents felt less and less comfortable with laying responsibilities on their children (possibly due to their lack of contentment with the responsibilities laid on them during their childhood) the child's role in the house was reduced to that of your common lake-variety leech.
The fact is that in the purpose of preserving happiness which is considered to be the cornerstone of childhood, we have reduced children to meaningless leeches. The children that you have dealt with probably have no responsibilities in their homes, and thus, no purpose for living, so why the hell should they care? The same Mother that gave birth to them, plunged them into a limbo in which the only goal they could have in their lives until they finish high school and the real world punches them in the face, is to seek pleasure.
If anything, I feel bad for the affected members of our generation. To live your life for the only purpose of pleasure, sheer pleasure alone, may seem awesome, but it takes a pretty highly developed mind to live such a life without falling into that limbo.
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Everything you said. Is everything I think.
Unfortunately with child labor laws and all that feminist shit I think society's pretty much down the crapper.
I'm young but I would have much rather been born in the 1840s, at least what I've read and seen from Tom Sawyer and some various articles about those times it just seems like we would have been...more responsible.
Now I'm fucked and I can't undo the damage. I swear to the God I don't believe in I'm going to bring my kids up roughly. FUQ DA PO-PO
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That's not what I am conveying at all. Women should have every right to work and children should not be forced to work in factories doing jobs that are beyond their capacity.
I just think that we, as a society, need to remember where our true priorities should lie and learn that no lifestyle is without some sort of consequence and that we must ask ourselves whether we'd be able to cope with said consequences, especially when it comes to bringing innocent children into.the equation.
To some degree I must agree though. One aspect of feminism that I believe has done more harm than good is choice of mate being based solely upon love or lust when niether quality alone will feed the children that she wishes to have and the mentality that "I don't need a man". A woman may not need a man but having two parents in the household would greatly benefit the child.
Overall, though, across all genders and races in the developed world, there is a degree of selfishness we must get over if we wish to have a more successful society. It's becoming glaringly obvious that our personal desires may not be good for everyone else.
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Well, no shit. That's nothing at all what I was getting at but whatever, this topic's already been up enough.