Comments on: Thanks, Captain Obvious! http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Maya http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125209 Maya Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:21:17 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125209 Hey, I didn't say these kids invented narcissism. I'm not saying I wasn't a selfish little fuck in my own right, or that there aren't old narcissists. But it is clearly getting more prevalent When 30% more college kids score high in the NPD test than 20 years ago. When the latest teen gift craze is plastic surgery, I'm not gonna say I'm surprised. What bothers me most is that this sort of behavior, whether from Bush or from the kid next door, is becoming the new norm. Hey, I didn’t say these kids invented narcissism. I’m not saying I wasn’t a selfish little fuck in my own right, or that there aren’t old narcissists. But it is clearly getting more prevalent When 30% more college kids score high in the NPD test than 20 years ago. When the latest teen gift craze is plastic surgery, I’m not gonna say I’m surprised.

What bothers me most is that this sort of behavior, whether from Bush or from the kid next door, is becoming the new norm.

]]> By: Mithras http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125193 Mithras Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:58:38 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125193 <i>"I'm concerned we are heading to a society where people are going to treat each other badly, either on the street or in relationships."</i> Heading? Bwahaha. “I’m concerned we are heading to a society where people are going to treat each other badly, either on the street or in relationships.”

Heading? Bwahaha.

]]> By: palamedes http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125191 palamedes Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:33:21 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125191 Yeah, I remember 1985, when I joined the workforce with a newly-minted college degree, and took loads of crap form older workers for weeks for the sin of earning a whopping $27K straight out of school. "The egotistical generation ahead of us" has ever been thus. And it isn't even an American thing anymore - you have the "bean sprout generation" of Japanese kids becoming adults in the 1990s, and people in China are already complaining about the "little emperor" generation that hasn't even reached adulthood yet. Yeah, I remember 1985, when I joined the workforce with a newly-minted college degree, and took loads of crap form older workers for weeks for the sin of earning a whopping $27K straight out of school.

“The egotistical generation ahead of us” has ever been thus. And it isn’t even an American thing anymore - you have the “bean sprout generation” of Japanese kids becoming adults in the 1990s, and people in China are already complaining about the “little emperor” generation that hasn’t even reached adulthood yet.

]]> By: Ecohuman http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125187 Ecohuman Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:53:23 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125187 yeah, narcissists. i've met a few. could this be the explanation for the rash of Hipsterism plaguing our streets? and how do we explain George Bush? now *there's* a narcissist. "I'm the Decider!(tm)" you know Douglas Coupland, the guy that supposedly coined "Gen X"? He's older than me--he's a Baby Boomer. yeah, narcissists. i’ve met a few. could this be the explanation for the rash of Hipsterism plaguing our streets?

and how do we explain George Bush? now *there’s* a narcissist.

“I’m the Decider!(tm)”

you know Douglas Coupland, the guy that supposedly coined “Gen X”? He’s older than me–he’s a Baby Boomer.

]]> By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125185 Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:23:16 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125185 <strong>Students think they're so special...</strong> Today?s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according ... Students think they’re so special…

Today?s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according …

]]> By: brendan http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125182 brendan Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:50:14 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125182 I am an old man Living alone my loved ones stuck me here in this nursing home I've lost all usefulness I want to DIE. -Nursing Home Blues, DRI. Little bastards need to work in the coal mines for a few years, preferably starting at age 12. Maybe then they;d have some fackin' humility. I am an old man
Living alone
my loved ones stuck me here
in this nursing home
I’ve lost all usefulness
I want to DIE.
-Nursing Home Blues, DRI.

Little bastards need to work in the coal mines for a few years, preferably starting at age 12. Maybe then they;d have some fackin’ humility.

]]> By: joel hanes http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125181 joel hanes Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:47:01 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125181 You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

]]> By: snuzy mandrake http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125180 snuzy mandrake Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:36:57 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/28/15/29/thanks-captain-obvious-2/#comment-125180 complaining about how selfish and narcissistic the youth of today are is a time-honored tradition, dating back at least to when my grandmother was told be her parents (circa 1916) that her generation thought only of themselves and didn't understand hardship like their immigrant parents. maybe it's just that young people are just self-centered. it's part of being young. and older people are just resentful of the self-centeredness of youth. it's part of being old. i live on a college campus and frankly, when i was an undergraduate, i expect i would be doing pretty much what i see my wife's students doing. complaining about how selfish and narcissistic the youth of today are is a time-honored tradition, dating back at least to when my grandmother was told be her parents (circa 1916) that her generation thought only of themselves and didn’t understand hardship like their immigrant parents.

maybe it’s just that young people are just self-centered. it’s part of being young. and older people are just resentful of the self-centeredness of youth. it’s part of being old. i live on a college campus and frankly, when i was an undergraduate, i expect i would be doing pretty much what i see my wife’s students doing.

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