Would You Rather Have Grown Up......?

Question

Just wanted to hear peoples opinions.

I am in my late thirties and was thinking would it have been better for me to have grown up in the present day and age i.e., computers are plentiful, lack of discipline in schools etc.

Or in the olden days when there were very few computers about and you had to work things out on paper.

You were taught to respect teachers and people's property.
As well as respecting the law.

The question is

Now or Past?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is something I've thought about a lot, actually.

I'm almost twenty-seven, and I can't STAND most of the people in my generation. Though there are exceptions, most of those I've met are materialistic, selfish, and greedy. The few I've chosen as friends are the exceptions that's I've met so far...but in all truth, I don't identify with my generation at all.

I think I am more in sync with the values of the past, minus the segregation and all that. The music was better, values were taught in school AND at home, kids played outside and did this funny thing...what's it called again?....oh yes, they used their imagination! There was no Halo 3. no $60 million brought in at the movies, and quality was favored over quantity.

And seriously, was the news plastered with info about what the biggest stars were doing? I mean, I'm sure Elizabeth Taylor might have made the news, but she probably wasn't talked about incessantly like, say, Paris Hilton or Britney Spears.

I've weighed the cost, and I think I should have grown up in the thirties, forties, or fifties. I could have done without a computer, even though I love having one....I prefer reading, and face to face interaction. :-)

Great question, by the way.

Answer 2

Each time block has its own advantages and disadvantages. I personally think discipline and respect in schools is a good thing. I would not want to see my children spanked by the school principal or rulers whacked across their knuckles for infringements. The trade off is that now we have school shootings and gangs that take over neighborhoods and kill cops. It is important that students learn to read and write whether it is on computer or by hand. The problem with computers is that to facilitate time there are too many short cuts to the language and people don't learn the basics of their own language. I would think this will eventually lead to an Internet Tower of Babel. I'm in my 70s and my children are older than you. I am glad that younger people are willing to look at what might be a problem in society and try to work out the best solutions. If I had school age children now I think I would want to home school to keep them out of the chaotic environment of undisciplined schools. Eventually the children must face the chaos of an undisciplined society so maybe that is not the best way to go.

Answer 3

i dont think we ever give a fair consideration when we think about questions like this. whenever people think about the past they tend to see it with a filter. everything either looks better then it was, or seems horrible.
the way i see it, im a product of the times i grew up in. things that seem great about prior eras might not if i hadn't grown up when i did. plus, how we view a time period via text books and lit. isn't necessarily how it seamed to the "average" person at the time. Really, the further back you look, the less likely your experience would have been like those we know of since most of what history records is about the upper crust's lives, and statistically most of us wouldn't be in that group.
btw, i dont think the statement about discipline and respect is fair or accurate.

Answer 4

I'm 25 and I'm pretty grateful that I grew up when I did. I was always respectful and so were my friends. Plus my friends and I didnt even think about sex until we were like seniors in high school. Now I hear how girls are loosing their virginity at age 11. Also my neohew is seven and he is already asking his mother and everyone else "For Christmas this year, I want only Abercrombie clothes." I didnt even know there were name brand clothes at that age. Plus one of my best friends is a teacher and she is always telling me how the parents never have her back. They ALWAYS blame everyone else and how she teaches. She teaches seccond grade. It's very sad.

Answer 5

I'm 23, and i wish I had been brought up in the 60's and 70's - everything seemed so much simpler and the world seemed to be a slightly safer place...

Answer 6

that is a good question..i'm 62..went grade school in the 50's..never even thought about things like what goes on todat,,no fancy computers or games..very few colored tv's..played outside often...made to respect elders and teachers..graduated in '64..mini skirts..beatles..long hair not the style yet..still taught respect..even carried g/f books and gave her my class ring...even gave her my sports letters to wear...the most thing in school back then one had to fear was being late for class or not doing home work...not guns..a55holes..threats to teachers..ipods..cell phones..computers..video games..pants down below my crack...back then going to school still sucked but it was still ''cool''..started getting worse o believe in the 70's when when dress codes started to change..i hope it gets better..

Answer 7

I know it is a reason that was born in the 80's and I am thankful. Growing up in Medieval times would of been something.

Answer 8

i could particularly have awareness, through fact existence is plenty extra handy once you have the awareness to act properly :-) much less rigidity. Fewer errors. Fewer motives to ought to show regret or clarify later. do exactly the main suitable element the 1st time. Ah... awareness!

Answer 9

its in the lord's plan where - or rather when we are are supposed to grow up...haha.

Answer 10

PAST DEFINATELY.