little_old_man Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted November 29, 2015 I'm not sure how many of you have noticed, but over the last few months the news has been dominated by stories of college students and their sensitive feelings. Most of the coverage revolves around the black lives matter movement, but they are far from the only ones who are shutting down portions of their universities because they don't want to hear any kind of opinion that's contrary to their own. Much to my surprise, the Washington Post did a piece today talking about it, and I just happen to agree with almost everything that was said. Most media outlets wouldn't touch this story with a 10 foot pole for fear of offending somebody in this hyper PC world we've created. This doesn't have anything to do with politics, so please don't lay blame on anybody. It's been a huge change in the fabric of our society, and now we are seeing how these spoiled brats that were never told "NO" growing up are turning out as adults. Enjoy........... For thin-skinned college students, we have nobody to blame but ourselves The Washington Post Kathleen Parker It would be easy to call protesting college students crybabies and brats for pitching hissy fits over hurt feelings, but this likely would lead to such torrents of tearful tribulation that the nation’s university system would have to shut down for a prolonged period of grief counseling. Besides, it would be insensitive. Instead, let me be the first to say: it’s not the students’ fault. These serial tantrums are direct results of our Everybody Gets a Trophy culture and an educational system that, for the most part, no longer teaches a core curriculum, including history, government and the Bill of Rights. The students simply don’t know any better. This isn’t necessarily to excuse them. Everyone has a choice whether to ignore a perceived slight — or to form a posse. But as with any problem, it helps to understand its source. The disease, I fear, was auto-induced with the zealous pampering of the American child that began a few decades ago. The first sign of the epidemic of sensitivity we’re witnessing was when parents and teachers were instructed never to tell Johnny that he’s a “bad boy,” but that he’s “acting” like a bad boy. Next, Johnny was handed a blue ribbon along with everyone else on the team even though he didn’t deserve one. This had the opposite effect of what was intended. Rather than protecting Johnny’s fragile self-esteem, the prize undermined Johnny’s faith in his own perceptions and judgment. It robbed him of his ability to pick himself up when he fell and to be brave, honest and hardy in the face of adversity. Self-esteem is earned, not bestowed. Today’s campuses are overrun with little Johnnys, their female counterparts and their adult enablers. How will we ever find enough fainting couches? Lest anyone feel slighted so soon, this is also not to diminish the pain of racism (or sexism, ageism, blondism or whatever -ism gets one’s tear ducts moistened). But nothing reported on campuses the past several weeks rises to the level of the coerced resignations of a university chancellor and president. The affronts that prompted students to demand the resignations include: a possibly off-campus, drive-by racial epithet apparently aimed at the student body president; another racial epithet , hurled by a drunk white student; a swastika drawn with feces in a dorm restroom. Someone certainly deserves a spanking — or psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud had plenty to say about people who play with the products of their alimentary canal. But do such events mean that students have been neglected, as protesters have charged? Or that the school tolerates racism? Concurrent with these episodes of outrage is the recent surge on campuses of “trigger warnings” in syllabuses to alert students to content that might be upsetting, and “safe spaces ” where students can seek refuge when ideas make them uncomfortable. It seems absurd to have to mention that the purpose of higher education is to be challenged, to be exposed to different views and, above all, to be exhilarated by the exercise of free speech — other people’s as well as one’s own. The marketplace of ideas is not for sissies, in other words. And it would appear that knowledge, the curse of the enlightened, is not for everyone. The latter is meant to be an observation, but on many college campuses today, it seems to be an operating principle. A recent survey of 1,100 colleges and universities found that only 18 percent require American history or government, where such foundational premises as the First Amendment might be explained and understood. The survey, by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, assesses schools according to whether they have at least one required course in composition, foreign language at the intermediate level, American government or history, economics, science, mathematics and literature. Coincidentally, the very institutions where students are dominating what passes for debate also scored among the worst: Missouri, D; Yale, C; Dartmouth, C; and Princeton, C — all for requiring only one or a few of the subjects. Amherst scored an F for requiring none of them. Such is the world we’ve created for young people who soon enough will discover that the world doesn’t much care about their tender feelings. But before such harsh realities knock them off their ponies, we might hope that they redirect their anger. They have every right to despise the coddling culture that ill prepared them for life and an educational system that has failed to teach them what they need to know. Weep for them — and us. Spartacus, Astronomer, bds1961 and 6 others 9 Awards
Spartacus Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted November 29, 2015 No Surprises here... little_old_man, Sweatnbullets, JohnnyDos and 4 others 7 Awards
PimpedOutPete Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 174 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 130 Topic Count: 387 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 15030 Content Per Day: 2.61 Reputation: 8047 Achievement Points: 92227 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 59 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Birthday: 04/23/1970 Device: Windows Posted November 29, 2015 I totally agree. Sadly I can recall the same type of conversation my parents said of ourselves. I suspect it was the same of them in the 1960's. What comes around goes around I presume. little_old_man, hxtr, TBB and 1 other 4 Awards
JohnnyDos Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.31 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted November 29, 2015 TBB, DEEJAYKEG, BUDMAN and 2 others 5
hxtr Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted November 29, 2015 I am glad the next generation is so eager to give up their freedoms. They don't deserve them. TBB 1
Spartacus Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) I am glad the next generation is so eager to give up their freedoms. They don't deserve them. Also, you must understand that Kids today are taught to fear Authority... So the entire Concept of "Freedom To Question" is not in the back of their minds. Most believe in the Zero Tolerance Policy that the schools drill into them. It's also an "all about me and my opinion" policy, meaning they are taught that if they stand for the same view as the school, then they have the right to Silence their opposition... Therefore it's in the schools best interest to brainwash early and then tell the children it's all about "You and Your Views"... That's why when the get into the real world they crumble like the Cookie Monsters Favorite Food! Edited November 29, 2015 by Spartacus Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted November 29, 2015 As JFK (RIP) said most wisely... Spartacus 1 Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted November 29, 2015 Forgive a second bite at this particular cherry but there has been much rage by the student population in the UK recently and an old chestnut that I find particularly annoying resurfaced. We have an enhanced culture of entitlement, irrespective or merit or worth, that suggests everyone has a "right" to be educated (to whatever level and in whatever discipline or topic the individual rather than the state or a sponsor may choose). I have had to correct a younger friend who thought university education was a "human right" - that isn't what the UDHR says. (See Article 26 on the right to free fundamental education.) No, legions of philosophy and media studies graduates will not raise the GDP of any nation... I yearn for the establishment of an institution that teaches self-reliance, common sense and a sense of duty. Oh...wait one moment...one exists! It's called THE ARMED FORCES!!! Hemps, little_old_man, Bosun and 1 other 4 Awards
Spartacus Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted November 29, 2015 I must take disagree with one point made in this... The Music that was "Yours" was made by Artists from the Greatest Generation... Not one member of the Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Doors or even Bob Dylan and Elvis were "Baby Boomers", they were all members of the "Greatest Generation" being all were born Pre-1945. Don't get mad at me but, the Music contribution made by the Baby Boomers was "DISCO" The "Baby Boomer" Generation is 1945 to 1965 JohnnyDos 1 Awards
Astronomer Posted November 29, 2015 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted November 29, 2015 You're no longer a special snowflake once you enter the real world. It does kids no favours to teach them otherwise. When I went through school, it was a meritocracy. If you failed, you re-did the year. If you got good grades, you bloody-well earned them. No ribbons for just showing up. Sweatnbullets, PimpedOutPete, Spartacus and 1 other 4 Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 30, 2015 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted November 30, 2015 Not one member of the Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Doors or even Bob Dylan and Elvis were "Baby Boomers", they were all members of the "Greatest Generation" being all were born Pre-1945. Incorrect (and I haven't gone through all the members) e.g.: Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) born 20 August 1948 Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) born 1 June 1947 Robby Krieger (The Doors) born 8 January 1946 JohnnyDos and Spartacus 2 Awards
Spartacus Posted November 30, 2015 Member ID: 1387 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 03:14 PM Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted November 30, 2015 Incorrect (and I haven't gone through all the members) e.g.: Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) born 20 August 1948 Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) born 1 June 1947 Robby Krieger (The Doors) born 8 January 1946 Yes These are exceptions to what I said. I should have not said "Not One Single Member". Robert And Bonham were the two youngest members of the Band, It was Jimmy's Band in the Beginning (AKA The New Yardbirds) so technichally you are right. Ronnie Wood "if He Could" is not considered to me a Real Rolling Stone but a Hired Guitarist. He actually was not considered a Permanent Band Member until the "Tattoo You" Album I Think. Brian Jones (02.28.1942) was the original and Mick Taylor (01.17.1948 Making Him A Boomer) replaced him in 1969. You Have me on Robbie Krieger Though being Born in Jan. Of 1946 makes him a "Very Early" Boomer lol... I can expand my List to make my original point... Hendrix? Not a Boomer The Who? (except Townshend 05.19.1945 and Moon "The Loon" 08.23.1946) Half Boomers Janis Joplin? Not A Chance... Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys? Nope The Byrds? Nope Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia? Double Nope!! (A couple of Latter Members were Boomers, not original members) Fleetwood Mac? Nope Except Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham (Not Original Members) Buddy Holly, No Little Richard? Negatory... Chuck Berry? Not BB, Freddie and Albert King? Negative Frank Zappa? Uhm.... No! One more Exception Is Clapton, Birthdate is 03.30.1945 And the Band "Yes" is a Mixture On the Other Side of my Point Andy Gibb "Mr. Saturday Night Disco Fever" 03.05.1958 BEE GEES=MAJOR BOOMERS! Awards
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