This has to be a joke...
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:14 pm
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In defense of kids today--especially my own---the fact that they do not know something does not automatically pronounce them as being "IGNORANT" (a very harsh term in my estimation.) When I grew up in the 50's I did not know what a pair of "spats" were but my school scores and S.A.T.s did not deem me to be ignorant by any definition. With the advent of the internet the children of today are far and above more INFORMED than we could ever have hoped to be in our generation, when we were their age. What is most "worrisome" to me is the fact that it has not even been established that that a YOUNGSTER posted the offering----yet we chose to condemn an entire generation because of their supposed ignorance. I do not know one Victrola from another----does that put me in the category of ignorance or in the category of I just do not care? In my opinion, let us stay on the topic of phonographs and leave to the future historians as to whether the kids of today know anything or are just "ignorant". Michaelbbphonoguy wrote:I know this is funny, but it's also worrisome. If kids are this ignorant about a little thing like this, how uninformed are they about important stuff?
As a person who has a yearning of for learning---what is the other story? MichaelEdisonSquirrel wrote:We don't know the age of the person who is selling the "100-year-old" stereo. I stated that the seller is "most likely" a younger person, as it would be unusual for an older person like myself to believe that it dates back to the early 1900s.
In a similar vein, if a seller were offering a black and white TV and stated that the TV was probably a rare antique from 1910, I would expect that he/she is a younger person who did not grow up with a black and white TV. I might have a laugh and then stop to realize that much is lost with each passing generation. There is a lot that my parents and grandparents experienced that is totally foreign to me. In addition, many things that we experience on a daily basis and take for granted will be unknown to the next several generations.
When I first started work at my present job, there were no computers, no internet, no direct deposit, no ATMs, no faxes, no voice mail. Yes, the differences in technology made for a world that was radically different that the one we now live in. Yet the real differences between then and now was not so much the technology, but the attitudes and biases of people in general, but that's another story.
Rocky
why take these comments so personally?bostonmike1 wrote:In defense of kids today--especially my own---the fact that they do not know something does not automatically pronounce them as being "IGNORANT" (a very harsh term in my estimation.) When I grew up in the 50's I did not know what a pair of "spats" were but my school scores and S.A.T.s did not deem me to be ignorant by any definition. With the advent of the internet the children of today are far and above more INFORMED than we could ever have hoped to be in our generation, when we were their age. What is most "worrisome" to me is the fact that it has not even been established that that a YOUNGSTER posted the offering----yet we chose to condemn an entire generation because of their supposed ignorance. I do not know one Victrola from another----does that put me in the category of ignorance or in the category of I just do not care? In my opinion, let us stay on the topic of phonographs and leave to the future historians as to whether the kids of today know anything or are just "ignorant". Michaelbbphonoguy wrote:I know this is funny, but it's also worrisome. If kids are this ignorant about a little thing like this, how uninformed are they about important stuff?
Hi Michael:bostonmike1 wrote:In defense of kids today--especially my own---the fact that they do not know something does not automatically pronounce them as being "IGNORANT" (a very harsh term in my estimation.) When I grew up in the 50's I did not know what a pair of "spats" were but my school scores and S.A.T.s did not deem me to be ignorant by any definition. With the advent of the internet the children of today are far and above more INFORMED than we could ever have hoped to be in our generation,when we were their age. What is most "worrisome" to me is the fact that it has not even been established that that a YOUNGSTER posted the offering----yet we chose to condemn an entire generation because of their supposed ignorance. I do not know one Victrola from another----does that put me in the category of ignorance or in the category of I just do not care? In my opinion, let us stay on the topic of phonographs and leave to the future historians as to whether the kids of today know anything or are just "ignorant". Michaelbbphonoguy wrote:I know this is funny, but it's also worrisome. If kids are this ignorant about a little thing like this, how uninformed are they about important stuff?