What has changed is the way news is delivered. With a 24 hour news cycle, you have to fill it with something, and the time has to be paid for. That is by revenue. The higher the ratings, the higher the revenue rates. You build rating with sensationalism, bread and circus, whatever you want to call it. Most people now a days think violent crime rates (like child abductions, murders, etc) are at all time highs. They aren’t. They have been trending down for 40 years. The difference now is you hear about a heck of a lot more of them. Social media is another branch of the same tree. There isn’t a higher rate of idiots in the world, they just have it easier to showcase their stupidity for all to see. Now, that last point probably doesn’t have statistics to back it up, and may just be a little self-applied optimism to make me feel better.
LOL! I think you just called me an I D 10 T !What has changed is the way news is delivered. With a 24 hour news cycle, you have to fill it with something, and the time has to be paid for. That is by revenue. The higher the ratings, the higher the revenue rates. You build rating with sensationalism, bread and circus, whatever you want to call it. Most people now a days think violent crime rates (like child abductions, murders, etc) are at all time highs. They aren’t. They have been trending down for 40 years. The difference now is you hear about a heck of a lot more of them. Social media is another branch of the same tree. There isn’t a higher rate of idiots in the world, they just have it easier to showcase their stupidity for all to see. Now, that last point probably doesn’t have statistics to back it up, and may just be a little self-applied optimism to make me feel better.
Hell, you’d be the last one I’d call that.
Then you need to hang with a better class of loser my friend!Hell, you’d be the last one I’d call that.
Heck, maybe “goofball”, but there isn’t anything wrong with that in my book. We can’t be serious all the time.
I've always said that after you grow up, you then grow old, and then you bore young people.Heck, maybe “goofball”, but there isn’t anything wrong with that in my book. We can’t be serious all the time.
It is in your final statement where we diverge.
My friend, this whole PLACE is all ABOUT the "airing!"
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”. Five or so years ago I decided that I didn’t want to grow up to be the grumpy old man stereotype. I’ve been actively trying to improve my outlook. Being grumpy and angry can be exhausting.
Yes it can. I am an optimist by nature, and a pessimist by choice. I truly never met a man I couldn't like, if I made the effort to figger out what makes 'em tick. Unfortunately, it's usually pain, from an old injury, that scabbed over and didn't heal right.
From memory it was about 15 years ago. The rent was about $6k per month so I was sharing with two airline pilots.
I am a very empathetic person, maybe too much. Had I gone into the medical field, I’d probably be an emotional mess. For decades I built up walls to protect myself. Only recently have I learned how to lower the walls a bit, temper it, and deal with it. Empathy can be a good thing. We need to learn how to understand each other, our needs, and work on solutions. I am not a religious man in any way, but the Sermon on the Mount part of the Bible (probably familiar to the majority of us here) is a good starting point. It is not a treatise on one particular group’s beliefs- it is one on being a good human being. What it says is true in any decent belief system.
I'm quite the opposite, I dreamed of the days I could emulate Henry Fonda as Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond.
I guess after decades of being a grumpy young man, I finally got tired of it.
Are you suggesting there is no indictment in the OP of the younger generation of parents?
The OP made no allusion regarding the parents age, indicting or otherwise. His point was their behavior.
