Are we spoiled?

Yes it is. Read below.



People have been smart enough to be able to trap rabbits but too dumb to know that you can't survive on them.
Try sticking someone out in the wilderness, even in a good season, and tell them to find food. Without proper instruction on some things you will be without a paddle 100%.
Or try getting someone to learn leather tanning without instruction on either catching the animal and skinning with as few holes as possible before you even get to the rest of the process of tanning, curing, working and constructing things from the hide.
Too many skills you need for long term wilderness survival cannot be learned along the way. Heck even many of the ones for short term survival you need at least some instruction.
 
I'm not spoilt and if anyone says I am I'll simply walk off in a huff and never speak to them again.
 
I'd like to learn to hunt! It's something that has always interested me.

My generation is the consumer generation, we learnt and developed social skills much better than our forefathers ("beat him until hes not a queer") comes to mind. We are perhaps more understanding than the last generation. When Z day comes, I'm not sure how much it will help.
 
It is possible for *some* things to happen immediately. Not all. The key word in my original post was *everything*. Many of the young (born in the 90s) people I deal with are under the assumption that everything happens immediately, and if it doesn't, they are often genuinely perplexed as to why this is not the case. As I said, this is from anecdote and personal experience, not scientific survey.

I wasn't mocking anyone. And I am afraid we will have to disagree on your analogy.

EDIT: It's probably also worth pointing out that I am aware not all young people are so entitled, just as all older folk are not models of Zen calm and good humour.
 
I was born in 91' and I'm not in a rush, nor do I want much. If I do want something however, saving up for it is not too hard.
 
Are we spoiled? Sure, compared to someone in a third world country who can't even go to the well for some water without risking rape. Is being 'spoiled' in this sense a good thing?? Oh hell yes! I like my first world privileges and my right to stay single if I want and have safe sex if I want and finish my education and have enough to eat, thank you very much.

If you mean 'spoiled' as in entitled of attitude...well, some are, some are not. There are people in every generation who think they've earned respect just by breathing. There are young people who think they know everything, but then there are older people who think that anything that comes out of their mouth is fact even when it's full of logical fallacies because hey, they're old, they have life experience, they don't need to use reason, they already know they are right.

Idiots will be idiots, regardless of age, it seems.
 
On a more serious note, much more serious than selfishness or entitlement in the young, is the notion that young men find it somehow acceptable to wear trousers that are tight around the ankle and baggy at the crotch and rear.

Not only is this the deciding factor in me now knowing I am 'old and out of touch', I believe it may be a secret sign of the impending apocalypse.

srsly
 
Dont diss my pants.

how else is anyone supposed to appreciate my sexy underwear?

its still better than the 80's!
 
you gonna have a heart attack as i dance on your lawn in my leg warmers and hipster hat
 
OFF TOPIC:
Chadderz if you really want food procuring skills learn to trap/snare. It's less energy intensive and has a higher chance of success.
Also when you're survival fishing for food you try to string a line across a river with many hooks dangling with bait to increase your chances... one line is not so good.
 
What's wrong with low cut pants, on males OR females? I have thick obliques and I'll show them off if I want to, dammit
 
I have nothing against low-cut pants per se. It's actually the tight ankles that give me the heebie-jeebies!
 
Low cut doesn't bother me, what I can't get is skinny. Needed trousers for an interview in the summer and it took me four shops to find a set that weren't skinny cut. Tried some on in the first one just in case and the sizing is daft, either it didn't fit over my rear (and I'm a pretty slim guy) or else it did and then was massive round the waist. Not my cuppa tea ( but then, I get tetchy in clothes I can't move in, trackies and combats all round!). Also, wouldn't have been a great look for an interview I reckon! Sorry, trousers, totally off topic, but, I hate skinny trousers, as much as anything else, because my gut reaction to them makes me feel like a grumpy old man. I'm only 26!
 
Honestly, no they aren't spoiled just completely unable to cope with the pace of technological and social change. The young of today get the poorest education in the post war era however the demands and expectations on them are higher than ever. Having some post war baby boomer tube calling you spoilt is frankly laughable. Unless you are pushing your 40s your grandparents would get lost in the local park without all tools of modern society. TBH the kids of today would adapt very quickly to changing circumstances because THAT is what we do as a species. Adapt or die.

The Bear.
 
no complimenting zaad
no
bad zaad

tbh i prefer to see skinny jeans on feamles. its scary on guys.

god knows why our generation thinks thats a good look
 
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