SC2 and Immaturity - Page 2

On December 16 2011 00:43 Kukaracha wrote:
I was only refering to the international scene, true. However, even BW in Korea will die eventually. Computer games belong to a very precise time and have a very short life span in comparison to sports who have been around for decades or centuries - with changing rules of course, but under the same form.

Edit: so your new wife, as a teacher, is an exception to us all, and her clinging to the past and fearing the future is a completely rational analysis of how things are?
Or maybe it is just that things change, and change faster and faster as communications in the world are accelerated?

I don't know but one of the above propositions just sounds much more reasonable.

On December 16 2011 02:04 Kukaracha wrote:
You're talking about a specific experience while not knowing how kids behave in other societies/countries/regions, and not knowing how kids behaved in the past.

All that is happening is that a rigid and timeless structure (republican school, in the French sense) is applied to a volatile and changing factor (people). The former will eventually always become irrelevant, because the latter is always evolving in an unpredictable way.

Many feel as if the population was dumber than they were before, but this is what happens:

• Our young self goes through school, experiences a certain setting,
  
• We grow up and develop a critical way of thinking,
  
• We look back at things and overestimate people and ideas (the human brain has a tendency to make up memories, but that's another topic)
  
• We look at the present with new, cynical, analytic adult eyes and realize how shitty many things are,
  
• Then blame it on the world, and not on our vision, even though it is more likely that it is our vision that changed, because the world shitfting to a new era is not something that happens everyday.
  

Add to this the illusion that we KNOW the WORLD. Mass media didn't leave us untouched. How can we say "people here do this, kids there do that" and qualify the unversal situation as bad without even defining who exactly are "the people" and where exactly is "here". I will say "people in Europe" all the time even though I've only visited briefly towns in Germany, England and Spain. I've probably seen 0,0001% of the people that live in the geographical area of Europe and yet I assume I know the way Europeans in general think!



People becoming dumber, the past being better, all of those are illusions fed by logical fallacies and personal frustrations.

On December 16 2011 02:40 Kukaracha wrote:
Um... yes. Strong arguments indeed.

On a side, note, "western society" does not mean much and probably encompasses more than a billion people, which is roughly 1/5th of world population. One does not "know" the "western society" after watching a few hours of TV.

But enough with this off-topic debate, we can continue by PM if you sincerely wish to speak about the matter.

On December 16 2011 00:55 Boonbag wrote:


i don't know how old you are - im 30 - lol she aint clinging to any past man, we're just about as immature as it gets.

the thing, you can't understand unless you actually go to any highschool class nowaday and see for yourself, it's really insane.

i'm not a fan of "respect" as a whole, but dude, things are on a whole different league than a mere 15 years ago.

kids go all day saying stuff like "shut the fuck up" to teachers, they use their cellphones inside the class... and that's not even the bad stuff, that's like, the "normal" attitude.

compared to 15 years ago, most of classes are like, 1 year backward programm wise - a 14 years old student in highschool today is about the level of a 12 years old 15 years ago.

today standard is beeing a complete retard - it was already in action within my generation, but today, TV / Massmedias, fully achieved their goal of dumbing down the whole population.

On December 16 2011 05:15 Smurphy wrote:
This blog is about chiding those who have a sense of entitlement and express it via the internet on these forums. People expect a certain aspect of the Starcraft universe to be up to their expectations, their expectations are not meant and then they complain about it via the team liquid forums.

Then, the original poster expects a certain aspect of the Starcraft universe to be up to his or her expectations, his/her expectations are not meant, and he complains about it via the team liquid forums.