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Monday, April 23, 2007
Sissies
What is this whiny crap? We grew up with the constant threat of thermonuclear destruction.
*Found an ad-free you-tube version* So people get killed by crazy lunatics, this isn't new, if anything, kids these days are exposed to less senseless killing than any time in history (except on the TV). I don't recall a childrens' crusade anytime in the last couple of centuries. And thanks to modern medicine most kids know their mothers, don't die before they're 2 years old, and actually get to meet their octogenarian grandparents. I'm not trying to diminish the tragedy of this crime for VT students, but to suggest that nationwide kids are horribly traumatized and are now living in fear of being shot in school is a little too hysterical for my taste. All of us have dealt with crap as we've grown up. Fear of Columbine-like killings has replaced fear of death from the Russians. Idiots now suggest thick textbooks to block bullets, it used to be they told us our desks could protect us from 100 megaton bombs. Maybe I'm complaining about walking to school 10 miles uphill both ways through the snow, but c'mon. The world is as safe a place for our kids as it has probably ever been. Kids are tough. Stop worrying. We can handle this. And kids, historically, have dealt with a lot worse. *Update* USA today has an even whinier piece of drivel on the poor children. The Millennial Generation has every right to be the Melancholy Generation, and the wonder is that it's not. In fact, the trauma this generation has witnessed may make its members more resilient, according to those who have studied them. And why are we so sorry for this generation? Well, because someone left the TV on. Previous generations of young people have had their allotment of horrors - two world wars, Vietnam, Kent State, the list is long - but no cohort of American youth has ever endured repeated mass catastrophes in the harsh, inescapable glare of a 24/7 media environment. The poor dears. That TV has been a real cause of suffering for them. If only there were some charity I could send money to that helps these poor children who have watched bad things on TV. Now really. What is this whiny crap? Labels: general discussion |
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6 Comments:
You are now officially an old crank.
April 23, 2007 6:03 AM,
I remember my 5th grade teacher (he was an ass) describing to us how the Russians would design missiles that would hit only within a few dozen miles of their target, and they just upped the megatonnage to make up for the inaccuracy.
For a kid growing up outside of DC, this wasn't very reassuring. Maybe I'm becoming an old crank, but the terrible trauma of leaving the TV on seems relatively mild compared to the daily fear of total annihilation that was constantly reinforced by obnoxious adults trying to make us little anti-commie patriots. It also didn't help that Reagan was just about the most unnerving man possible to have in charge of a nuclear arsenal. Between the senility, the arms race and his hilarious "microphone test" jokes, it wasn't exactly like we thought nuclear war was an impossibility.
April 23, 2007 10:42 AM,
Remember that poll: This generation is likely to resort to violence to resolve problems.
Better nut up.
April 23, 2007 4:50 PM,
In our school we were shown Red Dawn and The Day After in civics class. In church, it was all about Russian persecution of Christians and how they were coming to take our Bibles.
And Reagan? I agree. A lot of people loved him, and a lot of people thought he was a maniac.
Frighteningly enough, there seemed to be a lot of people who loved him because he was a maniac.
The people that REALLY scared me were the dudes in my rural area who were storing up stuff, building backyard bomb shelters, and LOOKING FORWARD to surviving a nuclear holocaust, and prosectuing a gurilla war against the Commies.
sigh.
April 23, 2007 10:25 PM,
You're getting cranky in your advanced adolescence. :)
April 24, 2007 1:21 AM,
I forgot about Red Dawn!
My brother and I loved that movie when we were kids.
Remember in like the first scene the Russians parachute in and shoot the teacher in front of his class?
Man that was some crazy paranoia. Today it's laughable, but I remember when we thought that was a likely outcome.
April 24, 2007 6:09 AM,
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