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Why is the culture in southern california so diseased. I've been to plenty of states and countries, and its only socal where i see sluts who disrespect their parents, vomit in their cars their parents bought them, only think about sex, and even at such a young age! Why is this? Why are girls so indecent here. (link)
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The answer to all of your questions is the internet. Well, most of it, the rest is the simple fact that you make grand assumptions based upon your limited experience because you're so egocentric that you cannot imagine that the world differs from your small sample pool of experience you draw from.
But since we don't need to explain that you jump to erroneous conclusions and make wild sweeping generalizations about them, let's talk about the internet.
The internet's impact on the behavior of teenagers has had a two fold influence since it's inception. The first is to give an open air to the teen angst that has always been there, a public forum for the airing of grievances that already existed in every teen since the beginning of time. Rebellious teens at odds with their parents is a tale that is quite literally older than Jesus, and you're just far more aware of it than society has ever had the opportunity to be before because of facebook, myspace, and the fast growing "blog generation" out there.
The second is a bit more of a subtle impact, but the connection to information allows an unprecedented amount of exposure to facts and opinions which can and often do contradict those of your parents. Where your grandfather grew up almost entirely within the confines of the views of his family and community you live now in a place where you can access a thousand viewpoints on any given subject with a simple google search.
This has the unfortunate side effect of highlighting the staggering ignorance of a significant portion of the American populace. And let's face it, once a kid figures out they're smarter than their parents, the respect is pretty much gone for good.
The world is waking up from a 50 year bout of escapist fantasy to the tune of pleasantville and leave it to beaver. Our parents believed in, invested in, and fought for that petty, shallow life represented by the white picket fence and bought into all the moralistic rhetoric everyone hawking that view of the world spat out, and now here we are a generation later trying to cope with a real world which is no fantasy and which the previous generation let go entirely to shit.
Personally I'm waiting for a regime change, but in regards to you and your feedback my previous points stand. You see the world through shit covered glasses because you embrace a perspective on life my generation is actively trying to kill.
Sorry, but them's the breaks. And you can't blame us for fucking it up once in a while, after all, it's not like we had any decent role models for figuring out how to behave like sane, functional adults.
And if you really want to blame the party girl behavior on something, just remember that your generation runs the media that's poisoned a significant portion of mine.
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I know they disrespect their parents because one thing i do know how to keep up with these fucked up people, is facebook. They post crap like "my dad's an asshole, he took my phone away" or "I wish i had new parents, they grounded me." What I am saying is that, do you think people in Africa have time to worry about their phones? Cars/toys/tv/computer/ etc. I'm saying that this socal area is mainly materialistic, and there is NO WAY you can deny that. I'm not saying other countries are alot better at this materialism, but there is definitely a dent.
And yes, you are right, the reason people are so messed up these days are because of our generation, and i am apart of it. Im not saying my age, but i am young, and i totally agreee with you. But i can say that i am better than this generation. And drinking? Defending drinking? Yeah, alcohol is not illegal, people drink it because they enjoy it. But when people treat it as a companion, then there is my problem with people. I went to high school here in socal, and maybe you have no idea what the people are like... they are not terrible, i will say that. But they act like they're in their 20s already: talking about weed, partying, getting wasted, fucking any guy they see. And i dotn exaggerate, i would never. Dont blame me for observing, and msot of what i said are just observations. I am not judging or trying to change the world, because people will be fucked up for aas long as they can live. I am just curious and observing how diseased the culture here is. I've been to many places, and there are people who know when to have fun, and when to act mature. But here, the majority are not driven, have no ambition, and just want to "kick it" and "have a good time" and "let loose" Bullcrap.
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