tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post5146811810912377515..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Those Youths Of Today!Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-37061194455772113572015-09-01T09:08:05.482-05:002015-09-01T09:08:05.482-05:00"It was filled with scenes of happy, smiling,..."It was filled with scenes of happy, smiling, air-brushed faces of cadre members merrily harvesting crops, performing in stadium-sized flag routines, and sitting around the commune sternly engaging in daily self-criticism and ritually denouncing counter-revolutionaries Madam Mao, Lin Biao, and the Gang of Four for crimes against the people's revolution. "<br /><br />Shorter McMegan: "Obvs, this is totally not creepy if everyone's white and they're doing it because Jeebus and Jim Bob Duggar"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-47667977125414456872015-08-21T14:03:29.005-05:002015-08-21T14:03:29.005-05:00Downpuppy: Yes, they are. I wonder if they know ea...Downpuppy: Yes, they are. I wonder if they know each other better than we did. They follow each others' lives on Facebook and talk online daily. I knew very little about almost all of my classmates, especially because I moved around a lot.<br /><br />Anon: Yes, I've seen it in arguments for the free-range kid movement. McArdle took it up as well (of course). If you want to convince everyone that the older generation didn't harm the younger generation you have to convince everyone that the younger generation is a bunch of spoiled whiners who were coddled all their lives and now won't shut up about jobs, racism, sexism, or their stolen future.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-8924226448396144772015-08-19T05:33:06.484-05:002015-08-19T05:33:06.484-05:00Grrrr.....I hate the playing in dirt / microbes re...Grrrr.....I hate the playing in dirt / microbes reference, and I see it more and more. It may -- it's a hypothesis -- have built up immunity in those who survived childhood. Getting exposed to bacterial pathogens at an early age is arguably better for the human race because the resulting adults are arguably (hypothesis) stronger and so on. The immune systems we have are formed partially through adaptations to our species being exposed to all sorts of pathogens. But playing in the dirt is not itself better than not playing in the dirt, if you care about people as individuals. Hmmmm, ok, maybe that is consistent with other "libertarian" thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-5426481291927938262015-08-17T14:24:55.424-05:002015-08-17T14:24:55.424-05:00One thing they got right is that kids today - part...One thing they got right is that kids today - particularly the ordinary kids in Big Urban High School where LP goes now - are much more polite and less violent than the kids I went to school with way back when.<br /><br />They seem to get the principle of minding their own manners and other peoples feelings, without being too sensitive themselves. I was over 30 before I really got that.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-64808567628697808172015-08-17T13:42:19.122-05:002015-08-17T13:42:19.122-05:00I am beginning to think it's nothing but bs al...I am beginning to think it's nothing but bs all the way down. It's usually the people raised in outer suburban or private school bubbles-people like Ross Douthat or McArdle--that complain. Those people have always been coddled no matter how many times McArdle tells us about the time her parents made her deal with a college professor all by herself. <br /><br />One of my kids graduated from one of the best public high schools in the country. Those kids were rich, poor and in-between and all worked incredibly hard. They're going to be geneticists, NASA scientists, university professors, etc. And they don't whine about nothings. <br /><br />The kids I know who do complain are the kids who are treated badly by a society that thinks it can use them and toss them aside. Those kids fight back, which is never popular with the powerful.<br /><br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-13053958499738967102015-08-17T12:09:51.846-05:002015-08-17T12:09:51.846-05:00The growing class divide is very real amongst the ...The growing class divide is very real amongst the young. Yes, there are a number of overprotected, oversupervised, kids raised in outer suburban or private school bubbles, and these full tuition paying kids are hotly pursued by the ever growing army of college administrators. <br /><br />Sometimes well paid writers forget that such kids are a minority.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.com