Do you consider your generation superior to your predecessors?

Question

Why do people consider their generation superior to their predecessors? Do you really believe in such theories and such people? Are you turned on by such individuals?

Answer 1

I don't consider myself or anyone else for that matter to be superior to anyone for any reason. And.....I am not turned on, as you say, by anyone who thinks that they are superior to anyone else.

Answer 2

In some ways each generation is superior to the one which came before. As we grow in technology we become more edept at minipulating our world and enviroment. As we become more developed we have more time to dwell on questions such as this, of what makes the world work, why people act as they do, and many other "enlightened" questions people can ponder. In previous generations it took more time to just survive, there wasn't any time to spend on such questions. You got up hungry, worked hard for sixteen or more hours, and then went to bed hungry, just go get up and do it all over again the next day. People today may wonder why older generations found plump women more attractive than skinny women, but it was a sign of wealth, and prosperity, to have a plump wife. A plump wife meant you were successfull enough to feed her to a point she could retain weight.

This is one factor of how later generations can be "superior". However, parents usually wish to see their children do better than they did. They work hard to bring resources to bare in order to aid their children in aquiring more education and thus a more prosperous life. In turn, their children work hard to provide more for the children they have, so they too can do better in life than their parents. This is why parents are so disapointed when children fail to achieve more in life than they did. A few unnatural parents want to see their children fail so as not to look bad in comparison. But, healthy parents always want their children to do better, but more successfull than they were.

However, as we continue down the road of developement, where parents can provide to the point of excess, children begin to behave as though they are entitled, and as such that everyone in the world owes them something, and they don't feel a need to work hard to achieve for themselves. Trust Fund babies comes to mind, and a worthless lot most of them are. I watched a show of some very wealthy individuals who own a huge corperation. The parents gave their children a choice: They could either work from the ground up in the family business, during childhood and after college, to someday earn the right to run the corperation and stand to inherite a great deal, or if they were not interested in the famiily business they would receive an education and then were on their own in the world, never to receive a dime more. These children did not grow to be spoiled rich brats with entitlement issues, but productive mature adults. So, it really matters how a parent raises the child whether or not s/he will become a worthless spoiled sycophant.

In looking at many of our youths today, it does appear as though they have it much easier than other generations. Many children lack even rudimentary chores about the home, and as such become lazy and spoiled. It doesn't take a great deal of money to create such children, just enough for starvation to not be a daily concern. I know my father was on his own at fifteen. To think of any American child on his/her own at fifteen is ludicrous! So, in this manner, no, this generation is not superior to the one which came before.

Also, today, in the States, parents are finding it more difficult to cut the apron strings. Children are living at home well into their twenties, something unheard of years ago, unless the child was to stay on the family farm or ranch and was working at an early age.

There is a theory that each generation should be better off than the one which went before. However, as all theories go, it is only as good as those practicing the skills necasary to create such a situation. Extreme dysfunction will inhibit such benifits, and stiffle growth from generation to generation.

As far as theories go this has sound factual basis. If it is true, then it is not a theory any longer, but fact. It stays a theory because of all the different elements of human nature. As long as even one set of children in a given generation fails to do better than the parents, it stays a theory.

I rather like this theory because it lends hope to the human race as a whole. If each new generation does better, then some day we may truly be civilized.

Answer 3

new generations <2 -3 generation> have their own good and bad sides.

they are technologically smart, but they ARE freaking LAZY.
instead of using brain they do use a calculator to do a simply math exercise.

Answer 4

I think they're all the same. Every old generation thinks the new gen is going to destroy the world, and every new gen thinks the old one screwed it up and left it for them to fix.

Answer 5

Turned on?