What is wrong with our society?

[member006]

Stress and pressure of the fast paced life style of today. Resulting in...

Use of too many ************ ***** for these shortcomings. Like I stated in another thread our society has become "The Valley of the Dolls" . I think this is a very large portion of the problems today. "The clouds bother me always blocking the blue." Doctor says *handing script to you* "Here take this pill, it won't bother you anymore."

******** almost totally raising themselves and the older ones often even left raising younger ********. Parents using video games and tv as babysitters/sedatives for the ********. Not enough quality time spent with them to me is no different than not giving them food. To not nurture is a form of starving a *****.

Additives to food certainly has helped weaken people compared to the '*****' healthy species we were in times gone by. Body and mind. Then again, over time the race has to have slowly 'immunized' themselves to some of the junk I guess. Everyday though they come up with some new crap to add so its a battle now.

Hopelessness and ****. They are alive and taking souls daily.

I have more, but this is long enough.

LL

 

[BlueBalls]

I think it has always been like this, its just that it didnt get as much publicity as it does now. Maybe it has got worse.

 

[MRPIMPN4EVA]

Poverty. Lack of gettin pussy.

 

[plucap]

Greed, stupidity and frustration.

 

[Facetious]

The U.S. Dept of Education
c/o Jimmah Carter

From the day of its inception, the American student has not been impressive.
This bureaucracy actually opposes sensible, pragmatic educational practices.

I'm sorry, but :thefinger 'em !
Their purpose is to undermine . . and the taxpayer foots the bill !

We're subsidizing our own demise.

 

[Jagger69]

It's all of the things that have already been mentioned in addition to us forgetting the two greatest things that Jesus taught us (and I am by no means a Bible thumper by any stretch)....."Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

If we'd all live our lives by this wisdom, things would improve dramatically. Ain't likely.

 

[gunslingingbird]

It's all of the things that have already been mentioned in addition to us forgetting the two greatest things that Jesus taught us (and I am by no means a Bible thumper by any stretch)....."Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

If we'd all live our lives by this wisdom, things would improve dramatically. Ain't likely.

Well, supposedly, isn't that what all religions teach? Love and respect for others? Where is the commandment that says "Thou shalt love thy neighbor, unless he believeth in a different invisible man than thou, in which case thou shalt smite him and maketh his ***** to flow like a river."?

 

[xX-Joanne-Xx]

It's all of the things that have already been mentioned in addition to us forgetting the two greatest things that Jesus taught us (and I am by no means a Bible thumper by any stretch)....."Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

If we'd all live our lives by this wisdom, things would improve dramatically. Ain't likely.

What about all the **** the bible teaches us? People certainly like to pay attention to those bits.

 

[wigster]

religion, the government, these are all to blame. God is used by people as excuses for there actions, and well don't even get me started on the government

 

[bazza599]

poverty minimum wage job living in a rough **** hole area .... and not being able to **** general raam on gow on insane by there self enough to send anbody mental

 

[Becks...poamr]

Bazz, no offense, but can you translate that for me?

 

[titsrock]

The U.S. Dept of Education
c/o Jimmah Carter

From the day of its inception, the American student has not been impressive.
This bureaucracy actually opposes sensible, pragmatic educational practices.

I'm sorry, but :thefinger 'em !
Their purpose is to undermine . . and the taxpayer foots the bill !

We're subsidizing our own demise.

Sorry...but this is completely wrong. The countries that are kicking our asses in the classes all have state-run education headed by some kind of bureaucracy. Our education system is completely failing. It seems to be based on a revenue scheme which is completely out of whack. Money goes to the most populated schools? What about quality and performance of those schools?

We need a modern overhaul in our education system...but we don't need to eliminate gov't and privatize or "localize"....

 

[jewelcity]

I completely agree. 100%.

religion, the government, these are all to blame. God is used by people as excuses for there actions, and well don't even get me started on the government

 

[METAL HEAD]

say what you want but don't blame tv moives video games or music i **** when that **** happen's. but not as much as when some one ***** a person or a group of people for no reason whatsoever it does not make sense to me.

 

[Facetious]

I'm sure they asked themselves this very question 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago...

"They" did ! I cannot tell you how many times my mum has told me over the years what my grand pappy used to say to her . .
"I don't know what this world is coming to . ." :yesyes: :nono:

:dunno: :1orglaugh

 

[gunslingingbird]

Sorry...but this is completely wrong. The countries that are kicking our asses in the classes all have state-run education headed by some kind of bureaucracy. Our education system is completely failing. It seems to be based on a revenue scheme which is completely out of whack. Money goes to the most populated schools? What about quality and performance of those schools?

We need a modern overhaul in our education system...but we don't need to eliminate gov't and privatize or "localize"....

While I was growing up, my ******'s job ****** us to move every few years back and forth between the US and Mexico. While we lived in the US I always attended public schools, but in Mexico I always attended private schools. Nevertheless, private or not, schools in Mexico have to fulfill certain curricular requirements in order for the Mexican board of education to recognize them as institutions of learning. Let me tell you something: even though Mexico is a third-world country, the standards of education there are SO much higher there than they are here, it's unbelievable.

There, they have no laws that say that it is detrimental to give a student a failing grade; I had a classmate in 9th grade that was, as they say there, "getting his doctorate in the 9th grade," meaning it was his third time doing the 9th grade (the second time around being the Master's). If you flunk one class, you don't go on to the next grade, even if the class is something as trivial as drawing.

The material covered is much more advanced than what you would find in the US. There were things that I learned in 9th grade that were never covered in high school, hell, even in my first year of community college, after I moved back to the US in the 11th grade. For example, there were people in my graduating high school class that only went as far as geometry. In Mexico, like it or not, if you're in the 12th grade you're taking differential and integral calculus.

That's another major difference between the two countries' systems of education: course schedules. When I first enrolled in high school in the US I literally laughed at the vice principal who was writing my schedule for the year; he asked me whether I wanted to take 6 or 7 classes. In Mexico, nobody gets a choice. Every year the curriculum says what classes must be taken by all the students of a given grade, usually 12 classes per year. You don't have a choice whether you want to take logic in the 10th grade or not. If you're in 10th grade, you take logic. Period.

say what you want but don't blame tv moives video games or music i **** when that **** happen's. but not as much as when some one ***** a person or a group of people for no reason whatsoever it does not make sense to me.

I agree. I think that any person with two brain cells to rub together can tell the difference between a video game and reality. I'm not claiming to be the sharpest ***** in the drawer, but I know that driving down the street shooting people in a video game is fine, while driving down the street shooting people in real life is not.

 

[Facetious]

The countries that are kicking our asses in the classes all have state-run education headed by some kind of bureaucracy.

All bureaucracies are not created equal. Some actually have noble priorities. We're just too top heavy here in America. There's too much administration for any good. Kind of reminiscent of an HMO. lol


I think that it's time for these excesses to take a pink slip for a change, maybe get a career that reflects well on the community.
The publicly employed teachers that I know (3 to be exact) are generally conscientious and are very much aware of the top heaviness and ill advised protocols brought forth via the US D of Ed and the teachers union leadership. Fire the bloated excesses in administration and then we can give teachers the pay raise they deserve. Allow teachers to teach as they see fit, if they fail in their duties, replace them. Hear HERE for teacher individualism !! :thumbsup:

The methods with how they "teach" these days are delusional at best. Take Exhibit I. for example Premium Link Upgrade

In the traditional system, the highest-performing students are given the highest grades and test scores, and the lowest performing students are given low, but passing grades. Norm-referenced tests typically use inexpensive, multiple choice computer-scored questions with single correct answers to quickly rank students on ability. These tests do not give criterion-based judgements as to whether students have met a single standard of what every student is expected to know and do; they merely rank the students in comparison with each other.

^ WTF is that ? :helpme:

Our education system is completely failing.

This is precisely my point. America's system is broken. English only as a primary language is where I would start. What brains does it take for these fat cat administrators ?
Who exactly invented this social division ? Why discourage the free flow of clear communication between a plethora of diverse cultures ?
If this isn't enough to catalyze a nutter or two or three to inflict the next schoolyard tragedy . . . !

We need a modern overhaul in our education system...but we don't need to eliminate gov't and privatize or "localize"....

I praise your optimism and enthusiasm however, these types of operations have historically exacerbated the problems at hand.

 

[Facetious]

I also think that there are a certain number of young people who attempt to emulate all of the beauty, glamor and riches etc. that tv portrays as the norm. When they fail they're crushed. Young men can really lose it if their fantasies aren't met.

Also, there's all too many broken families, as of late. Granted, some are better off this way, OTOH, **** do better with a sense of stability growing up. It's devastating for **** to have to endure the pain and uncertainty of divorced parents. Many feel betrayed. All sorts of things run through the mind of a ***** or ********** . . ."where will I be living be living . . . moms or **** place ?" "But *** lives in an apartment ! and pets are not allowed ! I can't be without my dog / cat !! :******:

This may appear as trivial but these things are difficult to shake off for some people, particularly when or as obstacles become a way of life.

Not in all cases but many

:2 cents:

 

[anomaly]

Irrational thoughts and ideas, born from religious beliefs.

 

[georges]

What happens in the society is due to:
-loss of values and morals
-laissez faire or latitudinarianism in education where there is no respect for authority
-lack of structure and weak management at school from teachers. Teachers of today are far to be like Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann (sorry for the reference but that guy would teach people what is discipline and respect towards the elders). I had teachers who were former military people and at least with them there was a real transmission of values like respect of the authority, discipline, politeness and teamwork.
-************* of some people to abide the rules and think they are all due or above the laws or the constitution
-weakmindedness and poor resistance too stress of people who fell either in anger or in depression
I dunno what more can be added :dunno: