Huge backlash against CHILDREN lately

So the newest thing that everybody seems to agree on lately is that children are not special.  The tone of graduation speeches is now "You have not done ANYTHING yet.  Get to work!"

See kids used to have MTV to make them feel cool and important.  MTV would validate the ugly clothes you wore, the shitty music you listened to, and your uneducated mouth.  Parents just didn't understand.  Who would ever want an expensive marriage and mortgage when you could live in a BASEMENT for FREE?  The "Real World" used to be a thing you could hold over a kid's head.  "What do you mean you FORGOT to lock the pool shed?  That doesn't CUT IT in the REAL world!"  MTV knew otherwise.  Pool sheds don't HAVE to be locked, almost nobody wants to steal chlorine.  You don't HAVE to show up to your shift at Taco Bell.  You can just blow it off, get fired, and Subway will hire you.  Same difference.  Feeling ready to have a baby?  Go right ahead!  You don't need a husband dragging down your social life, you already live with a bunch of babysitters.  Usually at least one parent and some siblings that have no intention of moving out either.

So then along comes the INTERNET.

While at first the internet was considered rather nerdy, eventually it developed mainstream appeal when it abolished the concept of "privacy."  Everybody sees and knows what everybody else is doing all the time now, and people love it.  MTV cannot compete.  As much as you may have liked MTV as a kid, it was nearly impossible to be ON it.  Anyone can be on the internet.  Nearly everyone these days is an active participant in social media, which has established two primary uses:

1) Showing off
2) Passing judgment

You can show off a picture of a cat, sandwich, tattoo, or newborn baby.  The internet community then gets to judge.  If it's your friends, they will usually let you know how much they "Like!" these things.  But if you are a middle-aged nerd showing off your lightsaber skills, or some fat hoochie girl making that stupid hoochie girl face that everyone hates, look out!

In other words, scattered throughout our vast wasteland of Farmville, ill-spoken cats, and the tedious litany of "just got 2 airport" tweets are seeds of accountability that are beginning to bloom.

(Were those "other words" or WHAT?)

If you think you're hot, you really better BE hot.  If you think you can play "Piano Man" on the GUITAR well enough to be seen on youtube, good luck.  and if you are a child that's been lead to believe that you're special, chances are that Condescending Wonka is about to lay the smack down on you.


Yes, YOU.

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