Again...
What it seems is that...you are a douche.
Again.
Someone else felt it necessary to resort to name calling because they're frustrated with me. If the only way you can debate with me is by name calling....
Well, what am I suppose to say to this? If you don't like my posts or what I have to say, then fine. But name calling belongs in elementary and highschool school where kids engage in this sort of thing. If anything, the increasing incidence of name calling sort of reinforces my original assertion that people these days lack any real manners or civility when they just resort to using ugly language to show their displeasure with someone.
Anyway. Back to the topic. Values and social norms have shifted and I'm arguing that it hasn't necessarily been for the better. Dispite supposed higher tolerence for others, I see disturbing trends out there, regardless.
No doubt the previous generations created something of a mess for the future generations. And it's not just blowing resources and leaving a decidely less secure world behind. We've also conditioned a new generation to expect anything and everything, to be catered to and when they begin to realize that they can't always get what they want?
And we've also allowed policticans and urban planners to totally mismange this city and butcher the urban landscape so I'm also laying blame at their doorsteps as well.
So I agree that these generations before have dropped the ball and let social norms shift so much that they allowed very questionable behaviour to flourish and become glorified and glamorized as you see portrayed in tv shows, music, entertainment and just about anything else in our culture now.
Just look at Miley Cyrus. She was an underage minor whose father exploited, vamped her up and then basically pimped her out so that money could be made and then she performed with a stripper pole in front of an audience filled with underage girls who want to emulate this. What's the message here?
Now these questionable behaviours have crepted into our public sphere and I'm going to give you 2 examples that happend today that illustrate precisely how this impacts the social fabric of our city and how people conduct themselves.
Perfect example. I got on the train today.
Train was crowded and I saw a empty seat beside a guy but a young woman was sitting with her legs stretched out on the seat and I asked if she could remove her leg so that I could sit. She gave me a stern look, mumbled and then took off across to the other side of the car where she prompty put her feet up on another empty seat. This is a daily occurance now. This was very rare when I was a child and as a youth. Now it's commonplace.
Second example. Again, today on the train. A girl who couldn't have been more than 12 boarded the train and she was wearing shorts so short and scandalous that they might as well have been underwear. It's totally inappropiate but some parent thought it was fine for their daughter to leave the house looking like this. Who thinks this is okay? Apparently a lot of people since I see more and more of this.
When did this become the norm?
And don't get me started on the food left behind on transit vechicles, people spitting on the tracks at stations, graffiti everywhere and numerous other examples of dispectful behaviour taken for granted now. There have been debates on the out of control behaviour of club goers down in clubland for exmaple, where people on this board have argued that people clubbing simply go nuts when partying these days.
Numerous people on this board made the case with their remarks about how these clubbers are extremely obnoxious, behaved like trash and just destroyed the streets and property as they leave the clubs. Another exmaple of people acting badly and treating the city like crap and money being spent on cleaning up the mess....
And no one wants to take a closer look at the values that allow this sort of behaviour. Let's face it people. We're living in the age of excess and it's not pretty.