Do you agree that technology is helping to make our society ungrateful and selfish?

Answer 1

yup

Answer 2

Somewhat, but I feel that selfish and ungrateful people will always find a way to be so and they would probably be just as bad if transported back in time (except they'd be hoarding gold coins and serving wenches and cavemen tools and such).

I think overpopulation has helped this along more than anything else. Too many people in one place destroys quality of living and too much of anything is a bad thing, makes humankind less valued and respected.

Edit: Oh, and I also think that lack of parenting plays a huge part, the most selfish and ungrateful kids I know are from two camps: rich ones who are left home alone all of the time with their toys while both parents are out working high powered jobs 50 or 60 hours a week and poor ones who are left home alone all of the time with nothing to play with or do while both parents are out working menial labor 50 or 60 hours a week to pay the slumlord rent. Completely different lives, only thing in common is parents either choosing to or forced to be gone all of the time.

Answer 3

It's not technology, it's the results of the social experimentation started by the baby boomers. Everything our society was warned would happen HAS HAPPENED. They destroyed every tradition and tried-and-true lesson of prior generations with the idea that they knew better. And they're STILL doing it.

Unfortunately, there's really no going back. It has to get a LOT worse (and it will) before the younger generations get fed up and take DRASTIC measures to get us BACK to the way things were before the selfish baby boomers tossed it all away.

They are the self-proclaimed "me" generation, and they raised several generations with that attitude as well. So THIS is the society they gave us, where kids kill without remorse and everyone is out for themselves.

And now, Hillary, the ultimate expression of the self-centered self-important baby boomer generation, is about to become our President. That's when the social tinkering will really come to fruition and everything will collapse.

They're all growing old but living longer than ever, so watch as the focus of the country will shift to supporting older people's wants and needs, and it will be done on the backs of the younger generations (via incredibly high taxes and "shared pain").

We'll have a LOT of cleaning up to do when the dust settles from buffalo herd that is the baby boomers finally dies down.

Answer 4

Generally I agree, especially with the younger generation. As a teenager, I have first-hand experience with this problem. Just 15 years ago, the World Wide Web was barely in existence. You had to walk to the library anytime you had to do research for a paper. Now you can do it from the comfort of your own home. This does make things a lot easier, and I admit to using the Internet much more then I really should, but it all contributes to laziness and taking stuff for granted. Every time I see other kids on the bus whipping out their cell phones and talking to other people about nothing, I lose a little more faith in the world. I know it's not just with teenagers, but I couldn't help but insert a little of my personal gripes into my answer. Technology can enlighten and inform when used correctly, but it can also make people ignorant and unappreciative.

Answer 5

Hit the Nail on the Head with a 28oz framing hammer! These shakers and movers in business and industry love a good Brown Noser to keep their Hemorrhoids clean and fresh! These same people are also Snitches, Back Stabbers, Liars, Cheats, and usually (99.999% of the time) among Least Productive and Uncaring about the Quality of Their Work, because they are keeping the Poo from building up inside the boss's Rectum with a constant vacuum on the Boss's Anus from their lips!

Answer 6

I think society has always been ungrateful and selfish, but with this instant accessibility to the global community that technology offers us, it makes it a lot more obvious.

Answer 7

I believe that technology is making us into fat, lazy, selfish, and hateful people

pretty soon that will be all we can depend on

after the earth is burning up like an egg on a hot summer day and when all the ice in the world can only be found in winter and in peoples freezers and drinks cuz all the ice from the poles will melt

Answer 8

and anti socialable with the rest of us who believe it is!

OK, yes bad parenting too. So in the meantime what do kids end up doing........sitting in front of a tv, video game or chating on this thing and there doing it alone. One thing effects another and so on. Society does change....for example talk to your great grandparents if you have them ask them how things used to be back when they were growing up.......or your grandparents talk to them. They'll tell ya how things have changed since those days. And yes technology has effected the way we live..........has it helped us or hurt us........both!

Answer 9

no. i think bad parenting and sub-par education is helping to make society ungrateful and selfish.

Answer 10

Somewhat its kinda making us all lazy, prolly one of the leading causes of obessity, lol, yep its makin us lazy and we rely too much, someone sends an EMP bomb 300 ft, in the middle of the US, all of the eletricity would blow, not that hard

Answer 11

yes very much so some people think there better than others just because their parents can spoil them