Got to go with Matt Knowles on this one. Here’s something you might recognize from childhood:
“I had to walk to school, uphill, both ways, through snow banks six feet tall.”
Or something to that effect. The “younger generation” always has it better, easier, they’re lazier, etc., because they don’t have to deal with “character building” hardships.
Newsflash: mowing the lawn doesn’t build character, it builds calluses.
Innovation, on the whole, has made our lives better. Myself, I work plenty hard, but I don’t do it in the sun, from before sunrise to after sunset, desperately trying to put food on the table for myself, my wife, and the five kids who haven’t yet died from childhood diseases.
The idea that somehow we have a sense of entitlement that didn’t exist before is ludicrous. Throughout history, when one store offered better service for the same money, they got the business. Nobody would go out of their way to have a bad shopping experience so they could “grow as a person”.
As for being able to say what you want when you want, no problem, it just isn’t so. That sort of behavior will bring its own consequences, and it always has. The potential audience is simply larger.
Believe me, I have no illusions about being able to have everything I want whenever I want it. I also recognize that I have a better life than my parents did at my age. And isn’t that something everyone wants for themselves and their children?
