The dumbest generation?

[redorange]

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gall...estgeneration/



In the Philippines, I think the dumbest generation has to be the 60's youth who dressed in funny looking clothes, wore long hair, and embraced alternate lifestyles. They believed in a different ideology and rebelled against the "Establishment" even though it was the "Establishment" that brought relative prosperity to our country. Their music was great though.

If that's your idea of a dumb generation you must be from the current generation. If the clothing looked funny to you then you'll be in for a surprise when your kids see what you wore during your days because they'll find it funny and weird. Look at the clothes worn in the 70's, 80's and 90's and you'll find they they also look funny now. Long hair is still around the last time I looked around and that so called alternative lifestyle pushed the limits to what is now cosidered acceptable. They may have rebelled against the establishment but they made people think outside the box and didn't just accept things for what they are. The very people who made People Power possible came from the generation you call dumb. No, I am not of that generation but I understand that the actions of that generation had more influence in how the world changed than any generation after it. Internationally that generation brought about the internet and space flight just to name a few.

[niky]

The 60's kids, I'd say, were smarter than the 50's kids... these were the boomers... the ones who are now the movers and shakers of our world. Young idealists who wanted to change it... bursting with energy and ideas and innovation.

The 70's kids, these were the rebels, the radicals, the anarchists... they wanted change, but change in the marxist manner, through bloody upheaval.

The 80's kids, this was the start of the introspective generation. The cold-war generation where the future looked bleak and doom was but a tick of the clock away. This was when we began escaping into the nets, into our minds...

Generation X was self-absorbed. Emo before it became emo (it was called grunge). It was the laid-back generation, free to concentrate on its own issues for the first time, as the Cold War came crashing down...

The late 90's kids (my bet for the dumbest... ) were the i-generation... I-me-mine... Generation X was merely introspective, but Generation Y was (and is) positively self-worshipping... but at least they're full of energy... yearning to explore the world and their place in it... it's just the whole self-importance thing that turns me off (something continued by the bloggers and MySpacers).

The current crop... I don't know. They're finding a new social order... exploring new frontiers of community and civilization building. We're not a part of that, sadly... just can't keep up... but this may be the future... living online is vastly more eco-friendly than driving out to the clubs... :hysterical:

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As for literacy... what decade does the author live in? Kids have been advocating illiteracy since the 70's! :hysterical:

[Lucius]

Dumbest should be the present generation. Like believing in OBAMA thinking he's like a guy sent from heaven. Listening to non-sense arguments by politicians, now they're mad tomorrow naman as if nothing happened. Think of the ERAP case.

[donbuggy]

They may have rebelled against the establishment but they made people think outside the box and didn't just accept things for what they are. The very people who made People Power possible came from the generation you call dumb.

Hmmm. Good point!

[badkuk]

masasabi ko lang sa current youth, i really don't get their fashion sense. scarves paired with short shorts(giniginaw ba o naiinitan), wearing sweaters when it's 28-30 degrees outside, color combinations that lead me to suspect a color blindness epidemic.

then again, all this could have started from my generation B)

[donbuggy]

From Why I hate the Sixties documentary:

"Fashion, pleasure and image were the holy trinity of the young."

[digitalron]

From Why I hate the Sixties documentary:

"Fashion, pleasure and image were the holy trinity of the young."

But Fashion, Pleasure, and Image are still the holy trinity of today's young... and even the not-so-young. Fashion doesn't have to be all about clothes. Today, it could also be gadgets. Pleasure... everyone wants instant gratification. Image... virtually everyone is much more vain now... what with overly-manipulated (I refuse to say Photoshopped, lol) images strewn about in cyberspace and vacuous and inane tweets and status messages being bandied about.

Every generation has its retinue of fence-sitters, its turtles, its Don Quixotes, its soapbox-standing impresarios, its philosophers, its sheeps, and its trailblazers. And, as times change, what gets considered coherent also changes, what passes for relevant transforms. For me, what's to be considered dumb isn't about not conforming to what is considered intelligent; what should be considered dumb is the inability to adapt to the rapid developments in our midst, and the inability to accept the changes that engulf us.

[ess]

The late 90's kids (my bet for the dumbest... ) were the i-generation... I-me-mine... Generation X was merely introspective, but Generation Y was (and is) positively self-worshipping... but at least they're full of energy... yearning to explore the world and their place in it... it's just the whole self-importance thing that turns me off (something continued by the bloggers and MySpacers).

+1 on that.

Karamihan ng mga problem employees namin dito sa office came from that generation.
ME ME ME!

[roninblade]

+1 on that.

Karamihan ng mga problem employees namin dito sa office came from that generation.
ME ME ME!

the entitled generation - "i should have been informed, yun lang yun"

[uls]

^^^^

hahah

tama

yan ang dumbest