More School shootings today
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I read an article in the Atlantic a few years ago that profiled a recent (at the time) Pew report. The report cited data compiled over a few decades that showed a stunning increase in the level of narcissism in youth.
I read an article in the March '10 Atlantic in which psychologists pointed to two dynamics that began in earnest in the early 1980s:
1. a public school curriculum that decoupled performance from reward in order to preserve the self-esteem of the young.
2. a parenting philosophy that leaned sharply toward making kids feel special, regardless of performance.
The Pew findings based on their data, and loosely supported by the psychologists in the recent article...
Young people (i.e. 18+) would be far less capable of staying employed. They would also be far more prone to domestic violence as the result of being incapable of resolving challenges.
If the Pew researchers are to be believed, these outbursts of violence are merely the beginning of a nasty trend.
I read an article in the March '10 Atlantic in which psychologists pointed to two dynamics that began in earnest in the early 1980s:
1. a public school curriculum that decoupled performance from reward in order to preserve the self-esteem of the young.
2. a parenting philosophy that leaned sharply toward making kids feel special, regardless of performance.
The Pew findings based on their data, and loosely supported by the psychologists in the recent article...
Young people (i.e. 18+) would be far less capable of staying employed. They would also be far more prone to domestic violence as the result of being incapable of resolving challenges.
If the Pew researchers are to be believed, these outbursts of violence are merely the beginning of a nasty trend.
I keep it pretty gangsta in the rap music department and I've never shot anyone lol.
Seriously though, I think there has a been a big shift in the way parents raise kids, and it isn't good. As a parent your role is to get a child ready for life, not coddle them and shelter them to the point of creating a useless person.
and..... WTF is up with all of these "hey kids, get up and move around at least 10 minutes a day" commercials lately. When I was a kid I was outside playing, riding my bike, whatever from sun up to sun down. Now kids just sit inside fucking around on the computer, xbox, whatever. Take those away for 5 minutes and they don't know what to do with themselves. It's fucking evolution. We used to get chased by lions on the plains of Africa, and that's how you became stronger. you learned that falling out of a tree = bad, you learned how physics works by avoiding falling and moving objects. Now we're raising a generation of kids that's only experience with physics and reality is in video games. What happens when they get behind the wheel of a 4,000lb vehicle and have no idea or concept of distance, friction, etc.
and don't even get me started on hand sanitizers and anti bacterial bullshit that is giving our kids all these allergies because they can't be around fucking life anymore.
anyone ever watched idiocracy?
Seriously though, I think there has a been a big shift in the way parents raise kids, and it isn't good. As a parent your role is to get a child ready for life, not coddle them and shelter them to the point of creating a useless person.
and..... WTF is up with all of these "hey kids, get up and move around at least 10 minutes a day" commercials lately. When I was a kid I was outside playing, riding my bike, whatever from sun up to sun down. Now kids just sit inside fucking around on the computer, xbox, whatever. Take those away for 5 minutes and they don't know what to do with themselves. It's fucking evolution. We used to get chased by lions on the plains of Africa, and that's how you became stronger. you learned that falling out of a tree = bad, you learned how physics works by avoiding falling and moving objects. Now we're raising a generation of kids that's only experience with physics and reality is in video games. What happens when they get behind the wheel of a 4,000lb vehicle and have no idea or concept of distance, friction, etc.
and don't even get me started on hand sanitizers and anti bacterial bullshit that is giving our kids all these allergies because they can't be around fucking life anymore.
anyone ever watched idiocracy?
Today's special snowflakes can't go outside because Pedobear will get them. Or at least, that's what the tit nazis train kids to believe. (Tit nazis are the women who breastfeed their kids until they're nine years old......and yes, there are women who do this....very popular these days to at least breastfeed until the kid is as old as THREE or FOUR)
it's funny cause the people who do columbines are kids who listen to emo and depressing music. rap is irrelevant to school shootings :2drinkspit:
Yeah, but statistically, listening to rap is a big factor in whether a guy abuses a girl or not. Calling women bitches and ho's and glorifying beating them up - as called for in so much of c/rap music - does a number on your head after a while and a lot of guys get programmed by that shit and start to think that messing up women is okay.
Of course, I know that everyone here is a decent gentleman who never has hostile thoughts toward his significant female other and has never considered acting them out physically. Ahem. So this doesn't apply to you. :338:
I've known a couple of women who worked in women's crisis/rape centers as counselors, and socioeconomic factors/race factors aside, a disproportionate amount of the guys committing these crimes on women were boyfriends, fathers, and husbands who were WAY into the nastiest rap music. This cut across lines of white/Hispanic/black, too - my friends say that they were shocked at what a common factor it was. From counseling the victims they learned a lot about psychological profiling potential abusers and the rap stuff figured into it big time - this was 1999 - 2006 or so that I had friends learning about this.
I dunno, the info might be out of date now. Maybe Lady Gaga is the new menace. She sure is freaky enough.
I listen to electronic music >_>. Hot hispanic women in miami who listen to electronic ftw. lady gaga is weird as fuck though