Three Problems with Modern American Society

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

James Lafond was trying to pay for something at the grocery store when a teenage boy with a bike came up behind him and said he needed to get by.

“When I’m done here, I’ll move,” he said, but the cashier lady just stared in horror.

This episode points out three problems with modern American society, he says:

  1. That teenage boys [naturally] feel the need and the right to bully adults
  2. That most adults — particularly women — live in fear of teenage boys, a fear that, rather than admit to, they cloak through an overweening desire to appease the little monsters and an insistence that men do likewise
  3. That these two factors have resulted in a barbaric teenage substrata of our society that lives outside of the acceptable rules of behavior traditionally adhered to in all previous human societies, which has cultivated a sense of entitlement and empowerment among teens which makes attacks on adults and isolated teens highly likely

Comments

  1. Gwern says:

    That these two factors have resulted in a barbaric teenage substrata of our society that lives outside of the acceptable rules of behavior traditionally adhered to in all previous human societies, which has cultivated a sense of entitlement and empowerment among teens which makes attacks on adults and isolated teens highly likely.

    I think this post says much more about the poster than it does the teen.

  2. Baduin says:

    Could you explain a bit more? I am afraid I didn’t catch this.

  3. ICR says:

    It may be the Africanization of American society. But that would be a slander on most traditional African societies. How about the end result of liberal capitalism fused with Frankfurt School-derived neo-Bolshevism in a multicult multiracial mass consumer society?

  4. Tschafer says:

    “I think this post says much more about the poster than it does the teen.”

    I think this comment says more about the commenter than it does about the post.

  5. Anomaly UK says:

    In the old days
    When a young man was a strong man
    All the people stepped back
    When a young man walked by

    You know nowadays
    Well it’s the old man’s
    Got all the money
    And a young man
    Ain’t got nothin’ in the world these days

    That was Mose Allison originally, 1963. Just a point of reference.

Leave a Reply