M_surinamensis
Shillelagh Law
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... well, everything, because I am basically rage shaped like a man.
Specifically and lately though, I am really hating the results of a couple generations of people who grew up in an environment where nobody ever told them they were wrong about anything.
We can't hurt dere widdle feewings, so kids are raised being told that everything that they ever choose to do or think or try is perfectly acceptable, that they can get away with anything and that they are incapable of genuine failure. It has been going on for years now and a bunch of them have turned into self entitled and absolutely to the bone ignorant adults who seem to believe that they can do no wrong and that the entire world will be handed to them without an effort, simply by virtue of being themselves.
I see it in forum posts constantly and it sickens me to think of what the future will be like when we finally run out of even the few remaining voices who promulgate hard work, striving for understanding and personal betterment.
They play soccer, finish with a tied game and everyone gets ice cream. They get seventy percent of the answers wrong on a test in school but they're still getting a B+ because nobody is allowed to fail or the parents come around and complain, they are told that they are special and important and can be or do anything... and they are never, under any circumstances, told that they just do not have the natural ability or have not put in enough work to be successful. It encourages mediocrity, it removes the repercussions of failure and rewards everyone equally regardless of their contributions. It removes from them any understanding of why effort is necessary, because everyone gets treated equally regardless. They get the same rewards for contributing nothing, so why bother?
I am sick of seeing these people who have owned one leopard gecko for three months, have written a half dozen posts about their constant problems spouting off about how good or bad someone else's practices are. And you can't tell them that they're a rampaging moron utterly devoid of any credibility who needs to shut up and learn something, because they are incapable of comprehending the enormity of the gap that exists between themselves and those people who actually know something. It just doesn't fit into their brains that they can be anything but a perfect success with no effort whatsoever, that whatever half-assed conclusion they have drawn has equal validity when set up against the hard won and thoroughly tested information produced as a result of years of work and refinement, that even when they are wrong, they can't be told that or treated as if it were the case.
... I want to shake them violently back and forth while screaming at them about their many inadequacies until they wet themselves.
Specifically and lately though, I am really hating the results of a couple generations of people who grew up in an environment where nobody ever told them they were wrong about anything.
We can't hurt dere widdle feewings, so kids are raised being told that everything that they ever choose to do or think or try is perfectly acceptable, that they can get away with anything and that they are incapable of genuine failure. It has been going on for years now and a bunch of them have turned into self entitled and absolutely to the bone ignorant adults who seem to believe that they can do no wrong and that the entire world will be handed to them without an effort, simply by virtue of being themselves.
I see it in forum posts constantly and it sickens me to think of what the future will be like when we finally run out of even the few remaining voices who promulgate hard work, striving for understanding and personal betterment.
They play soccer, finish with a tied game and everyone gets ice cream. They get seventy percent of the answers wrong on a test in school but they're still getting a B+ because nobody is allowed to fail or the parents come around and complain, they are told that they are special and important and can be or do anything... and they are never, under any circumstances, told that they just do not have the natural ability or have not put in enough work to be successful. It encourages mediocrity, it removes the repercussions of failure and rewards everyone equally regardless of their contributions. It removes from them any understanding of why effort is necessary, because everyone gets treated equally regardless. They get the same rewards for contributing nothing, so why bother?
I am sick of seeing these people who have owned one leopard gecko for three months, have written a half dozen posts about their constant problems spouting off about how good or bad someone else's practices are. And you can't tell them that they're a rampaging moron utterly devoid of any credibility who needs to shut up and learn something, because they are incapable of comprehending the enormity of the gap that exists between themselves and those people who actually know something. It just doesn't fit into their brains that they can be anything but a perfect success with no effort whatsoever, that whatever half-assed conclusion they have drawn has equal validity when set up against the hard won and thoroughly tested information produced as a result of years of work and refinement, that even when they are wrong, they can't be told that or treated as if it were the case.
... I want to shake them violently back and forth while screaming at them about their many inadequacies until they wet themselves.
