Amazed and Disgusted
I've been in this park many times over the past 20 years, and never have I seen such behavior. In the past three days, I've watched folks dump fish cooker oil in a fire pit, not at their site, but in ...
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toedtoes wrote:Crowe wrote:
You can't fix rude/stupid.
Yes, you can. I've found if you POLITELY explain what they are doing wrong quite often you get an apology, "I didn't know", or some other POLITE response. All to often we just gripe about it and assume they are just idiots. Many are but not all. Why not give the benefit of the doubt and try to fix it instead of just whining about it?
Much of this falls back to parenting or the lack thereof. The mid - late sixties is the root time when some of this started.
And the generations before you said the same thing. I see plenty of people that are well past that age whose attitude is "I'm old, I can do what I want". The different generations are no better or worse-we just choose to see what we want to and ignore the rest. Guess I'm just done with all the complaining. Let's start looking for the good instead of always ranting about the bad.
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"The mid sixties... is the root of the time when some of this started..."
Absolute, unadulterated Bull Hockey and nonsense.
Bad behaviour among some in any society is a problem that dates to the very first cities, and really beyond that. I dont know what history you read but this idea that this is a generational thing is unsupportable. This is a CLASS thing and always has been. This is an EDUCATION thing and always has been.
Read Socrates and see that he complains endlessly of the behaviour of the "modern" youth and their lack of manners and bad behavour.
