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:
- That teenage boys [naturally] feel the need and the right to bully adults
- 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
- 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
“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.
Could you explain a bit more? I am afraid I didn’t catch this.
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?
“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.
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.