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Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 2/3 EXP: 395 Next: 134 Since: 06-21-08 Last post: 5684 days Last view: 5620 days |
the tubes of the intarwebs? |
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 33 Posts: 168/199 EXP: 219922 Next: 9257 Since: 07-12-07 From: Orlando Last post: 5288 days Last view: 4928 days |
Maybe almost every simultaneously misplaced their belts.
Didn't stop my parents, though. ____________________ "This Island Earth can be yours, if The Price is Right!" -Tom Servo |
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 Paragoomba Level: 21 Posts: 63/71 EXP: 46708 Next: 3235 Since: 08-22-07 Last post: 5717 days Last view: 5645 days |
This header is useless_____________________________Yeah, parent's aren't very strict these days. I want to know what the hell happened to the meaning of "strict." I see bad futures for kids without strict parents. I heard Miley Cyrus is one of those bratty little teens, and she bosses her Dad around. ____________________ |
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Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 30/193 EXP: 204520 Next: 1922 Since: 05-26-08 From: Porto Alegre, Brazil Last post: 4447 days Last view: 4775 days |
For some interesting sociological insight read Michel Houellebecq's brillant novel "The Elementary Particles". It's not directly related to this issue, but in portraying some consequences of the cultural and sexual revolution of the late 60's one can see how some (permissive) values which have been over-valued in that time are part of our culture today.
Anyway, read the book, it's brillant  . |
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 Micro-Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 17/17 EXP: 5328 Next: 657 Since: 07-03-08 Last post: 5739 days Last view: 5592 days |
Yes I know, my brother (way older and with children) tells me it's hard to be a strict parent and beat them up when they do a bad thing because your children can (if they know how to) simply call 911 and tell them you're abusing them and then you either go to jail or get ripped off your kids easily.
But I plan to be pretty strict with my children, I want them to grow to be someone important and not a drug addict with worthless friends living in the streets. |
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 Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 431/1145 EXP: 3036770 Next: 130344 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3631 days Last view: 2883 days |
Banks (and the monetary system) are also in the picture, as they are almost everywhere you can think of, even in your underwear. "What's the point?", you're asking. Simple. Since the deficiencies of our banking systems makes everything cost more and more every second (it never goes down, at least), a direct consequence is the necessity for women to get out of home and work their ass off to pay for rent/mortgage, the car, etc. It's not the only reason why they do that, but it's a determining factor. Add to that the ever growing stress factor, again for the same reason:
Deficient money system = everything is more expensive = more work for the same goods Noone at home, children are less educated, or worse, educated by the daycare center employees many hours a day. When the parents are at home, they are more stressed and tired (see equation above). From there, it depends mainly on the parents general attitude and life philosophy. Some of them will go with brute force. Hit their kids as a solution to stop them from crying or whining. Some of them will go the "abandon all hope" path, and they will consider that giving what the kid wants is less energy-consuming than trying to explain to them moral principles (which is not always possible if the kid is too young) and applying discipline... There are other factors to take into consideration, but I think those two are important and depict some major problems at the root of contemporary societies... |
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Level: 82 Posts: 1110/1610 EXP: 5119427 Next: 89800 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3608 days Last view: 4598 days |
Posted by Trax While the decrease in purchasing power might be tied to banks, I doubt it's any direct consequence of physical presence through brick-and-mortar and online entities. Actually, I'd like to note that monetary issues primarily include contraction and expansion of the monetary supply. Besides, I don't really see how such a contention weighs in, so please clarify. =( The article mentions a general rise in spending on consumer goods for younger and younger children, which is contrary to the idea that people are working more and more for sustenance. If anything, it means that parents are buying children a range of products increasingly dissimilar to the conventional toys of the past. I'm not really too sure how these products compare to that of my generation, since I was too busy playing video games, but I take offense at the Tolkien jab at middle-aged people though, since he was my favorite author in the world when I was twelve. I don't think the more adult-like basket of consumer goods consumed by a younger audience really indicates a more precocious generation at all, but I could be wrong; I don't think that attacking the media is at all justified, as whatever changes in consumer influence have been growing ever since media has branched out into increasingly-accessible outlets, like the tubez. |
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 Ninji Level: 36 Posts: 231/235 EXP: 285488 Next: 22622 Since: 02-19-07 From: Nethergarde Last post: 5441 days Last view: 5243 days |
Seems to me that most parents nowadays just don't want to deal with the situation, so they ignore it.
No wonder there's so many wiggers out there in the United States nowadays. Jeez. ____________________ I like gay porn. It's hot  |
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 The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 1858/4196 EXP: 21539700 Next: 296901 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 475 days Last view: 88 days |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 1859/4196 EXP: 21539700 Next: 296901 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 475 days Last view: 88 days |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 439/1145 EXP: 3036770 Next: 130344 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3631 days Last view: 2883 days |
I'll rehash the 40-inch Plasma TV, for the sake of example. If 40-inch Plasma TVs are produced, it means they ought to be consumed sooner or later (or else, their production is not justified). Considering both decisions mutually exclusive, even from a pure econo-mathematical standpoint, looks like a non sequitur at best. It's the same kind of reasoning as the supposition that students should be poor because high revenue and school are arbitrarily judged to be mutually exclusive...
But it is true that with the advancement of technology, and the ever-growing number of machines working for us, we should be working less (as machines are made mainly for that purpose) and parents spend more time with their family. It's quite the opposite happening in many places in the world right now. It all resolves around the deficiencies of the money system... And negligence... Negligence to remove greedy people from their positions of power and prevent detrimental behaviors... |
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