Each subsequent generation has the ability to learn a LOT more, a LOT quicker than the previous. It's up to the individual to utilize that knowledge or not. But to try and discredit that is utterly preposterous.
Imagine if they found a cure for cancer, tomorrow. Within SECONDS, that information could be online and every scientist and doctor in the world could learn how to do it and be able to utilize that knowledge with immediate effect. If that had happened even just 50 years ago it would have taken literally years for that information to be available to everyone that could use it.
Pretty much the entire intelligence of the WORLD is at our fingertips. The possibilities are limitless. The only obstacle is motivation, which again you can learn to be more motivated instantly.
As far as weakness..... LOL. Each ongoing generation is getting weaker? No. Actually, what's happening is each generation is getting stronger. On every level. One example would be people like me - mixed race individuals. Every race of people in the world has a genetic predisposition to be resistant to various things. Therefore, mixed-race children are significantly stronger on a biological level, because we have more resistance to more illnesses. And of course, this is something that is happening more and more frequently.
It's the opposite of in-breeding, basically. If you in-breed, your genes become weaker and weaker over time, which is why inbreds have the most amount of deformities, physical mutations, etc.
Secondly, we're reaching a point (estimated to be within 30 years) whereby the rate of medical advancement exceeds the rate of mortality. Basically, WE are the first generation that may be able to CHOOSE whether we die or not. And we're getting weaker? LOL at that.
Cyborgs. There's a cyborg professor here in the UK. I watched a documentary about him. He's one of the leading professors in the field of cybernetics, and he conducts his experiments on himself. These sort of things could very well be both affordable and common place within a couple of decades. The development of opposable thumbs was one of the biggest steps in the evolution of the human race, because it allowed us to do things physically which weren't previously possible. We're reaching a point where it would be quite simple to replace our hands with lightweight titanium ones that allow for much more usage. Imagine being able to rotate your hands 360 degrees as well as all the joints in your fingers. This sounds like science fiction, but try explaining "the internet" to someone from the 1960's. Just 50 years ago. That would sound utterly ridiculous to them. But there were intelligent people at the time who saw that's where we were headed. Weaker? No.
If you're fat, lazy, unintelligent and unmotivated, that's your fucking choice. You have the ability to be anything you want right in front of you for basically nothing.
Kids don't walk to high school? Their choice. My nephew just started high school in North London, him and all his mates walk.
I know literally nothing about NFL so I can't counter you on that one. But as Pittsey said, more records are being broken than ever. Physical limits are being pushed more than ever. So I completely disagree that modern sportsmen are somehow weaker.
We ELEVATE people of the past as being more than they were. Every generation does it. Our generation will probably say that Lebron James or whoever is not better than Michael Jordan. Actually, he probably is. If you ask the generation above us, they'll say that no way was Michael Jordan better than Dr. J, or Kareem Abdul Jabbar, or Wilt Chamberlin, or whoever they elevate. And the generation above that would say that Wilt Chamberlin was nothing compared to the greats of their day.
Why does Webster have to add LOL? Because it's a fucking word that everybody uses and everybody knows, the English language EVOLVES! It's ALIVE! That's the fucking point! I bet you everything I own that words that are absolutely commonplace now, were considered controversial when they were added to the dictionary 100 years ago, hell even 25 or 50 years ago. Words reflect the age we live in and we live in the internet age right now. If this weren't the case, we'd all still talk like Shakespeare.
Why is sexuality a problem? Maybe if you're a prude. Are there more people being sexually assaulted than before? Actually, there's less.
Listen, don't jump on the bandwagon of complaining about the way the world is headed. Every generation there's people that do that and those people don't amount to shit because they're stuck in the past. You jump on the ball and you fucking run with it, or you fall off. That's it. There's no other way. Don't like the way parents are raising their kids? Then you can either try and educate those people or you can simply ensure that you raise your own kids better.
What is the problem, you ask? The problem with what? Life? Shit, how long you got? But we got LESS problems than people used to have and more ways to solve the problems we do have. 50 years ago tens of millions of people were dying of smallpox, and now that shit DOES NOT EVEN EXIST! Technology, bitches.
In short, I disagree with everything you said.
we are GENERALLY improving on technology we created a while ago. The next generation, learned it, improved it. Then the next etc...
BUT the generation after ours, you dont see the problem? Maybe it's where I reside, but people don't have priorities anymore. They just want sex. Maybe because i'm in America, where most ppl don't have to do shit anymore and there is a lot of unemployed ppl, but i see a lot of drawbacks.
They are more stuck on what the next phone is. They don't want to study them and build them, they want to work at McDonalds and then save up to buy them. Bc of that, they are not learning their abc's in college, and drop out of High school or whatever.
Recently, a study around my old school said that the kids in HS now are dumber, and not getting the facts that OUR generation got. so, they sent teachers to go learn to teach them a better way. (Which will eventually make us smarter), but right now, the generation that is out in HS right now is not smarter than us.
The other day, i saw a 1 year old kid reading off a program, holding it. (im sorry i don't got a source) but.... Mothafucka, I could barely talk for anything at that age. So i do think we are getting smarter, but not in the generation that's in HS right now in General, but the ones AFTER.
My point was, with the techonogy made by the previous years, we should have NO drawbacks, so we have the information, but we aren't utilizing everything right. The professors that are working on cyborg shit are probably not 35 or younger...but the info for that is at our fingertips, but ....the info is coming from him.
We are not sufficiently using our health facts that have been laying around for 20-30 yrs. McDonalds and all those food places realized ppl are getting smarter in way they eat, so they are finally going to start changing their menus, since Subway is now the largest food chain in the world.
and if you are fat, lazy, it's a choice, but with a computer, u can be fat/lazy, yet u still dont know the basis of anything about a computer? all you know how to do is play games?
The nfl thing was the main point of my argument. PHYSICAL contact. Ok, maybe we are getting faster? stronger as far as what we can do...but
We get hurt more, so we are getting WEAKER. That smarter shit, i just threw in for more argument. The players should be able to heal themselves between games to get better, eat healthier and not get hurt so easy. We got jacuzzi's, ice tubs and all that in the gym. The pads are better. I'm sure u seen the LEATHER helmets, to now the material now, yet, they are making so much rules changes b/c concussions, bc of hip/thigh injuries. We almost can't have contact on the Quarterback anymore. -___-
and the previous generations will not say that Dr.J was better than Jordan. He has a better skill set, jumped longer, better shots, etc. No one is saying Lebron is better than Jordan, he is just at a faster pace than Jordan. Lebron was an 18 year old boy with a 26 yr old body, probably b/c of good genetics and he was smart enough to eat healthy. So when he came out, he dominated more than Kobe and Jordan could do in their early years . But he is in NO way better than Jordan. He drives down the middle, Jordan could do that and do any other shot. Lebron can't do as much as Jordan could. and later on, we will see that LeBron probably wont have a long career like Jordan did, even though, he wasnt as long as the people before him...which goes back to my point, how is our endurance getting WORSE if the technology has improved? Are we going to have to rely on Cyborg parts to get longer endurance?
Wilt Chamberlin is a Center, anyway. that has nothing to Jordan or Lebron. but look how long he played and was able to play, like 20 yrs and shit. Look at the Centers now, they are out of the game in 5-9 years less than the ones before. It doesn't make the previous generations better, it just makes them stronger in endurance.
as far as Webster, if there is new words, fine. but LOL is not word, it's a new abreviation.
and if we rely on cyborg parts, are we going to be getting weaker in the future, as far as when we are first born?
