INDOCTRINATING IDIOCY – PART TWO
Paul has some serious
personality problems and attacked someone from another generation (with no
evidence or reason whatsoever) by claiming I thought I was better than him even
as he claimed he was better than me. His supporters and Bradley did the same.
Worse, they all just confirmed for a lot of others that people of Y-generation
are idle, bigoted, self-centred and stupid when the reality is Paul and his
mates represent a sad little minority of intellectually stunted people who know
no generational boundaries. Well done. Bravo. *slow hand clap*
Not to be outdone, another two contenders for half-wit of the week arrived on the scene. Justin, a real champ depicting himself as someone fighting for peace, love, equality and respect for the LGBTI community posted a variant of the standard ‘Blah blah’ response of idiots with nothing of value to contribute. Not as impressive as our poor, “struggling” and “oppressed” little Y-gen, Paul, who lives in Sydney, studies Engineering at UNSW, and jet-sets around the world.
Bradley was a latecomer, but no less unhinged than Paul. In fact, he didn’t even bother to read what Paul wrote, or did so but didn’t bother to ‘like’ the comment. But just like Paul, our hero Bradley cast reality into the wind and attacked things he quoted from what had been written but which, once again, did not actually appear in any form. It occurred to me that maybe they were reading something else and commenting on my post by accident, but then how would such perfections of the human species make a mistake?
This idiot also seemed to assume I was a
Baby Boomer and wrote “get over yourself”. Again, this was advice from which
Bradley himself could really benefit. A few weeks ago there was a post from
Anonymous designed to demonstrate how we need to think about things before
making assumptions, leaping to conclusions, and refusing to back down when we
make mistakes. It was a simple algebra (math) problem using symbols instead of
letters to represent number values. The reader was required to determine what
each symbol defined. It led to a huge flame war as people argued their solution
was right and others were wrong.
Some said the answer was 15, others 16,
17, 50 or even 70. One guy said diabetes and a waste of money. Another insisted
it was marketing by McDonalds but failed to provide evidence to prove this
other than the symbols. Some argued the BOMDAS approach, that multiplication
came before addition, others simply missed the multiplication sign and followed
the pattern established by all the additions in previous examples, and a lot failed
to realise the last question included a single packet of fries, not a pair.
Only one guy, aside from myself, got it right.
People were so busy trying to prove
their argument that they missed the obvious. The question was the answer.
Despite numerous arguments insisting the single packet was worth half of the
two packs, even by a guy claiming to be a math teacher, the last question
includes a symbol whose value was not defined. Just because it looks like half
of one defined earlier, doesn’t make it so. If it were half the value of the
symbols in the third equation, the two packs would have been presented as the
symbol of a single pack preceded by the numeral 2.
Ignore what the symbols look like.
Replace them with letters (a+a+a=30, a+b+b=20, b+c+c=9, and b+dxa=?). Are we
still convinced ‘d’ is half the value of ‘c’? If ‘b’ represented 18, would that
mean that ‘d’ is 81 just because ‘d’ looks like a backwards ‘b’? This was a
logic trap. It was designed to encourage people to make assumptions. Maybe it
was advertising by McDonalds. Maybe it wasn’t. What it proved was (a) that just
because something looks like something doesn’t make it so, (b) we need to avoid
making assumptions and refusing to reconsider better responses when they become
apparent, and (c) personality influences interpretation.
Hopefully, you get what
I’m trying to say with this example. I’m sure the likes of Paul and the other
eleven idiots that trolled my post (about using flawed approaches to compare
how smart people are to each other) will assume I’m suggesting they’re obsessed
with junk food. Either way, time for a change of tact. Normally, my approach is
the hand of friendship when someone new comes along or needs help. Offer
withdrawn. Trolls like Bradley, Justin, Paul and his sycophantic pack of douchebags
demand respect but make no effort to earn it.
That Dumb-arse Dozen are
like a weird version of the story about the Good Samaritan, only they are the
victim. They get ignored by their own kind because the other trolls are
focussed on their phones. An X-gen offers the victim help but is accused of
having a go at them, insulted, and told to piss off. Others watch the victim do
this and respond to the victim in kind, but do these trolls learn? No, they
blame everyone else, including those who tried to help them or otherwise did
nothing to deserve it.
Here’s the skinny. People
like me struggled all our lives to get what we have, which is not bloody much.
We suffered the indignity and misery of long-term unemployment, rent we
couldn’t afford, and went without meals. We didn’t go out, get coffee, or have
holidays. We certainly didn’t travel around the world or have flash motorbikes.
We lived in a squalid rental an agent would look you in the eye and lie about,
insisting it was a “charming, renovator’s dream” when it was an old run down
former (or located beside a) meth-lab.
We dreamed of getting a
job so we could save-up to buy a house and one day, maybe, get married and have
kids. That’s right. Just like you. Some of the lucky ones got apprenticeships,
or worked our way through uni, on our own, no support, in an effort to try to
improve our prospects. We didn’t have mummy and daddy to support us. We didn’t
suck them dry then complain about how their generation was oppressing us, and demand
they go away and die because the world was ours, but make sure our laundry was
done and meals cooked first.
After that, we went back
to the same shitty job because we didn’t know the right people or others were
ahead of us for promotion. Just because you go to uni doesn’t mean you walk
into a middle management job. It’s not some right. You have to prove you can do
the jobs that lead there, can demonstrate ability, responsibility, and work
ethic. Most of us never escape. Welcome to the real world, princess. All the
while you bitch and whine about people having a go at you (when they’re not),
and bully them because you refuse to listen or see reason, you’re missing the
big picture.
The excuse that you are the
way you are because of what the previous generation did to you are kind of
true. In an opinion piece I read, some Y-gen chick even tried to point out that
you are all our sons and daughters, and in a sense you are. One way or another,
we helped raise you. Most of us sacrificed as much as we could to give you a
better life and the things we never had when people like my (for lack of a
better word) parents did such a piss-poor job because they were like you lot –
a bunch of self-centred narcissists. They still are. Things like the free
tertiary education you’re getting. Although, from your idiotic personality and
behaviour, it has become abundantly clear that the taxpayers are getting ripped
off.
So you’re right. We
spoiled your lot. We gave you things you didn’t earn, much less deserve. We
wanted you to have the things we never did. That’s why you feel so entitled and
regard us with contempt as you insist this is your world, leaving no place for
anyone else. Not all of us return that look either, no matter what you think.
The look we give you is disappointment. Sometimes shame. Not just regarding
your behaviour, but our own failure to help you be better people.
It is our fault that we
allowed government to dictate laws and policies that have enabled your worst
behaviour. We had no real means to stop them. They rule like they are entitled.
As a result, there are no real consequences for anti-social behaviour and
violaence at school. The teachers are not even permitted to physically
intervene to stop even the most violent acts. There are too many of you unable
to leave the nest but unwilling to take financial responsibility for your own
lives despite demanding independence. You won’t even help clean-up after
yourselves while you continue to live in your parent’s homes. When you go into
the real world, you are unprepared for reality.
This world that you
claim, that you insist you will make better, people like me built it. We fought
tooth and nail, every fucking step of the way, to provide the things you take
for granted. If you had bothered to read what I posted, and think about it,
you’d realise that mobile phone you use like a mirror, and to photograph your
junk (imagine my horror learning that no longer just means the mess in your
garage), is something my generation created. You are not the only age demographic
that uses and misuses that thing. It’s just one of many great gadgets my lot made
or paved the way for you lot to make better.
So stop and think about
all that while you blame us for how hard your life is compared to ours. It
wasn’t easy for us either. We had to put up with the Baby Boomers telling us
how lazy we are, how we need to learn how to save when they have no idea how
expensive everything is now. We still do. But you have more in common with us
than we do with them. Most of my generation don’t feel entitled. We are
grateful for everything we managed to set in place for you lot.
Geordie Brown was only
partially right about our so-called political representatives failing students
and teachers. They also fail the parents, communities and society as a whole.
He was right when he said they were not elected to blame others. But he was
wrong when he suggested they were elected to fix the problem. They won’t. We
all know it. It’s up to Geordie Brown and folk like him to do that. My
generation couldn’t change anything. We had to wait for our predecessors to retire
and go away before we could make changes, but we will never get the chance.
The worst people from our
generation have moved into positions of authority, and unless you stop and
learn from history, the same will happen to your generation. My generation,
your collective parents, had so much hope that you would build a better world.
We gave you everything we could to prepare you. We wanted to step back, let you
know we were there if you needed us, but give you a little nod and say, “you’ve
got this.” But people like you, Paul, have created an image that leaves us
shaking our head in bitter disappointment. You are evidence of the stereotype.
You had twelve years of primary and secondary education and now you’re
at uni. But here you are, insisting you are better than everyone that came
before you and behaving like an ill-educated, ignorant twat. All those years
wasted. What the hell were you doing when they were trying to educate you?
Staring at yourself in a phone? Texting your junk at some poor bastard whose
number you accidentally entered? Wake up, buttercup, you’re a big boy now. You
want to wear the big boy pants, it’s time to take responsibility for what you
are instead of blaming everyone else.
If you had been even half-as smart as a High School leaver who manages to over-achieve and get a higher score than the average of his fellow students, then you may have realised exactly what my less than subtle point was about trying to compare people of different ages based on questions that may favour one generation or culture over another. You can’t. It’s all subjective. It only really works when testing subjects that underwent the same education program.
One bloke suggested they test how smart people are based on the job he does as a plumber. It would provide him with an unfair advantage unless the student knows about plumbing, but it was a very cleverly made point. All the post did was expose angry, resentful, self-centred, narcissistic, over-entitled, ungrateful jerks like you, who have an over-inflated opinion of themselves and like to tear others down to make themselves feel bigger.
This is your world? Well, you clearly have a lot to learn. It’s not your world. Your first lesson is about sharing. You are the future? If that’s even remotely true, the majority of the world is weeping. Unless they are a vast improvement on you, Paul, the only way a “tonne of young people” will ever make a “positive impact on the world” is if we drop them from a great height onto other trolls like you and Donald fucking Trump.
The education you exhibit is a variation of the tired old “school of hard knocks”, where people claim their life experience makes them the smartest person in the world despite the evidence of, well, them being a colossal dumb arse. It’s people like you who go into the public service or jobs where you are supposed to help people but, instead, become part of the problem. You are a product, and pedlar, of the entrenched culture of corruption.
You bear all the relevant
qualifications. You come across people you don’t know, who may even need help,
or who say something you decide somehow offends your delicate sensibilities,
and you respond with behaviours that include indifference, ineptitude, idleness,
negligence, apathy, incompetence, insincerity, unfounded and defamatory
accusations, and or intimidation. Although the education system may have been
wasted on you, the harsh reality is you are exactly what it indirectly taught
you to be.
The politicians we have
elected, and the majority of the ranking public servants they appointed, model
that very behaviour. The system is designed to isolate and silence not just
victims, but the whistle-blowers and anybody else that dares object, and to
conceal and enable predators, crime, systemic failure, and injustice. We are
indoctrinating the idiocy that oppresses us. As long as this continues, until
we force positive change, we are part of the problem.
We, as a society, need to
change how we do things. We need to go back to school, all of us, and have a
good hard look at the whole process. Not just what we are teaching, but how we
are teaching it, and what children are learning in an environment where
children can behave badly and never suffer real consequences to deter and
discourage repeat offences. We need to have a look at the role of parents who
cannot discipline themselves, let alone their brats, and how they insist their
child is a victim when that child is the perpetrator.
It’s time we had a look
at why our education system is producing less well-adjusted and educated people
than Asian countries. Children who throw tantrums, refuse to do their work,
refuse to learn, and spend their time vandalising property and assaulting
others are being enabled when they should be punished to deter that behaviour.
Children who are being attacked, and in a class with a teacher constantly
having to monitor bad behaviour, suffer adverse learning outcomes that flow on
and impact on the rest of their lives and employment opportunities.
It’s time to stop
allowing people to inflict themselves on others and then claim to be the victim.
It has resulted in a return to the ignorance, misogyny, racism, bigotry, violence
and other anti-social behaviour that has taken decades to expose and attempt to
end. We have struggled to actually enforce policy and weed-out problem people
in the police, public services, politics, sports and churches, and now we are
confronted by a culture that encourages the narcissism and idiocy of the next
generation as it moves into the employment sector and multiplies those very
problems.
It’s time social media
was forced to adopt real regulation to protect users from trolls hiding behind
so-called ‘free speech’ to attack others and inflict their seriously flawed
personalities and mental health problems on their victims. It’s time we taught
people that respect must be earned, and that there are consequences for bad
behaviour. We cannot compare people based on tests that favour one over another
because this leads to assumptions, generalisations, discrimination, unfounded
personal attacks, anti-social behaviour, and injustice. Thanks, Bradley,
Justin, Paul, and all your half-wit mates, for the wilful stupidity you
demonstrated to prove my point.
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