Entitlement
JLO
4/18/2012 11:52:36 AM
Joey,
I concur with your synopsis of the study. I am of the boomer generation and actually worry about the prospects for my kids as well. I worry the our educational system and family structures our not promoting the value of a rounded education and work ethic.
As I see it, once folks receive monetary entitlements, they snowball into unmanageable financial diasaster because those who establish these programs have no real clue as the the impact of their actions, short of getting them re-elected.
Personal sense of entitlement is only different in that it is not directly a financial burden, but in a broader sense, it is also very harmfull to society. A large part of the strenth of our country is its financial influence in the world. Everyone must participate in the growth and benefit from the growth. If one chooses to sit out the game, they will not and should not reap the harvest.
Take care,
We have a lot of television events - Season finales for American Idol or Survivor, the final episode of Jerry Seinfeld, most SuperBowls, certain wardrobe "malfunctions", Helicopter footage of LAPD chasing a white Bronco, etc.
The terrorist attacks of September 11th were not just a television event.
@PredictableChaos,
I only really half agree with you here. I agree that 9/11 had more of an impact of the country than the seasson final of a TV show. But, I was in my early 20s when 9/11 happened and for me it really was something more like a TV event, though one that had only slightly more impact on me. To me the events that took place in the wake of 9/11 had more impact on my life.
By the same token I know people who the event had much more of an impact on, people who are the same age as me and lived in the same area durring the time, i guess it really does depend more on how the person views it.
I also think that many younger people did not experience it with the save degree of magnatude as those who were older, so that might be why they do not see it the same way.
@TelecomFreq - I think we're agreeing.
9/11 was more than a "television event". I wouldn't expect that everyone of a certain generation would have a chapter about it in their autobiography. Maybe it's not that personal. But it was a water-shed event for our country - before that terrorist attacks were something that happened in far away places like Yemen.
And I agree - the actual impact was more about what happened afterwards; but the same would be said for Pearl Harbor or the JFK assasination, right?
My disagreement is with the study authors who called the 9/11 attack a "television event". It's just not.
I swear, kids these days, think that they are entitled to things. Don't want to work, want everything to be handed. Look at me, I sound like and old man. But it is an "entitlement movement" going right now
@PredictableChaos,
Yep, we are on the same page.
as for pearl harbor and JFK, i guess since they happened before I was born I sort of see it with a historical perspective that all of the impact happened at the moment of the event, but I think I am just looking at it through text book colored glasses. LOL
Maybe the real issue is that anyone -- of any age -- can internalize an attack on their own country and the loss of thousands of lives -- and conclude it is nothing more impactful than the season finale of their favorite TV show.
@Noreen,
Thats a great point, and I had not even really thought about it from that perspective!
I blame TV -- and video games. I think a lot of people don't associate things they see on the screen, large or small, as "real." Although strangely enough the majority seems to think anything in a chain letter or posted on Facebook is!
@Noreen,
I would agree that the TV seems to serve as something of a filter for violence for some reason, but I am not sure I could get on board with TV content and video games being the reason, or at least not the whole reason.
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