I remember a Bill Clinton, George Bush interview and Bill said something about being the last conversant generation, meaning where people ate around a dinner table and tv or other distractions hadn't screwed us up so bad. I think its very true. My generation was better than the current one but the people in knew that were born in the 20's and 30's were way past all of us.
These kids now? forget it, they can't string a sentence together without stuttering, halting, or saying um's, uhs, they are retarded and it's not even their faults. It's visible with our entertainers, if you look back at our black entertainers of earlier times, guys like cab calloway and duke ellington were eloquent as aristocrats, motown artists, somehow, from inner city detroit and usually one gen removed from the south could speak very well----now, go listen to some rapper being interviewed. We're fucked.
the thing where people interupt, common, most of my friends wanted to do all the talking and interupting and no listening. It's one of the reasons why I don't really talk to them anymore.
I also think all the computers and cell phones have just splintered our attention so bad that we might never get it back together. People looking at their cells in the middle of traffic, people walking with their faces into it. It's one of the biggest problems i see with modern society and no one sees it as a problem until maybe some criminal busts them in their no paying attention head and robs them or they cause a wreck. I know personally that since I started driving delivery, it's gotten harder to concentrate on just one thing because I started getting into the habit of thinking of several things at once, driving, the app, the order, the customer, it's hurt my ability to focus.
