Raising a Generation of Deluded Narcissists

Tom Iron

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Good morning Dixie, Here's a copy of a letter I had published in a local paper a few days ago. Very similar. I met a guy in a supermarket who knows me and he said my letter exactly describes how his grandson lives. Every time he says anything to his daughter about it, she goes out of her mind.

Dear Sir, I find all this talk of "gun control" very interesting. As if the gun killed those poor children in Connecticut. The point isn't the gun. The point is that children, especially boys are allowed to exist in a fantasy world, insulated from all outside influences like some sort of hot house plant. Then, when one of them goes completely mad and does something of this horrific magnitude as was done in Connecticut, everybody seems surprised. Stop allowing boys to live like this and these things will stop. If it isn't stopped, don't be surprised at anything our boys might do, or not do. As far as the gun control nonsense goes, if the stupid government was actually able to stop guns from getting into the hands of these type of individuals, which the government won't be able to do (how's the "war on drugs going?"), then these insane individuals would just go onto the idea of suicide bombings/ car bombings, etc. The answer is in stopping the sick way of living that so many of our young men live that leads to this type of behavior.

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Very good article.

I have been saying this for years especially for the tools that use Facebook and " think " they have 400 real friends.

I dated a girl for 2 years and I could honestly say she had about 10-15 good friends. Now on her facebook site she has over 400. Wow technology can make people delusional.

-Vanilla-
 

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So very true. A close relative of mine has to deal with this generation now at his office in which he helps manage and he relates to me some of their attitude and behavior. They feel they have as much (or even more!) say in any matter as those that are 20-30 years their senior that have been with the company for many years and in the same line of work.

They have very little respect for those they could actually learn from with all of their experiences. Many of them feel as though they are the Master and their Seniors are their apprentice! Some will bring in their tablets and watch movies in their cubicle while they are "working" and say they are simply "multitasking". This is unfathomable to the older workers who were brought up under far different values. This younger generation was the first generation to "develop" under full-fledged feminism with probably little male supervision or instruction, and it shows.

The sad thing is that these companies now have special programs (affirmative action) geared just for this generation (regardless of race) as top managers feel they are more "technologically savvy" (yet they don't take into consideration their poor interpersonal skills when compared with their predecessors) and want to "bridge the intergenerational gap" by allowing them to be promoted over their more senior colleagues.

There's always been talk about the differences between generations, but the differences with this one is completely fundamentally different...the end results of extreme social engineering over the past 30 years.
 
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