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Originally Posted by Washing Machine
trust me....you havent met most of the adults I know (just talking from my experience). I just find it quite condesending to put down teenagers all the time. Intellegence depends on the person really.
I remember growing up and hating the fact that I knew loads about politics and these middle-aged Sun reading idiots that would seemingly always be around could go and vote (and vote things like BNP most of the time). And they would argue with me all the time about things and always think they were right (when I had in read hundreds of books on these said topics) sololy because they were older. In particular they would be really condesending about music (something I always knew a great deal about) thinking I could not possibly know anything of the music that came before i was born (when in reality the 70s amounted to no more than the BeeGees and Abba for them). I never had intellegent adults around but the people I hung out with were always very intellegent, well-spoken and could wipe the floor in a debate with anyone twice their age. It instilled in me a respect for teenagers and kids that will never leave me.
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I'm trying to tell you that I don't think you're taking into consideration the effect of life experience on a person's intelligence, which should be a greater factor than music, books, and politics combined. And I know that street smarts aren't everything, but I'm assuming these people are for the most part still alive, and they did choose to raise you and your friends, and the way you talk about it, they aren't preventing you from spouting off on message boards and in real life about whatever topics you want. They are giving you your space to grow and develop as you choose, and so in that way they are giving you the control, which takes strength of character on their part. And that's where you and your lot come along, and somehow I doubt that you will be as understanding of the generation to come after you as your parents' generation was of you. The feeling I get on this board is that when all of the teenagers start reproducing, they'll be too busy imposing themselves and their tastes on their children to let the kids have that little bit of extra room to discover things for themselves. And yes, even go through a phase where they listen to atrociously bad music, GOD FORBID. You've set such a high standard for the kids and teenagers you know, that if/when your own children fail to live up to that, I fear that you may go apeshit. So this is just a heads up, to relax a little and enjoy what people can offer rather than expecting them all to be just like you.