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Re: Social evolution
Posted By: Aaron SikesDate: 10/11/06 5:34 p.m.

In Response To: Social evolution (Forrest of B.org)

: Likewise, even as each society as an individual unit dies a slow
: death for the reasons you've named, successive societies overall seem to
: be getting better and better across history.

All very true. Still, I don't think we can claim any great amount of success in this regard. Given the current state of things, any advances that can be claimed are tenuous at best.

: But we seem to have gotten far off track.

Right, where were we? :)

:What does any of this have to do
: with "kids these days"? The point I was making was that every
: generation forgets what it was really like when they were a kid (both
: their own actions and their environment), idealizes their youth (both
: their own generation's behavior and the general quality of things 'back
: then'), and then berates the new generation and all of their things for
: being generally lower quality then "when I was your age".

That's one thing I cherish so much about coming into parenthood at the time that I did. I'm close enough, I think, to my own youth that I'm able to appreciate my stepdaughter's behavior as pretty much duplicating what I did when I was her age. My way of being a teenager wasn't any better (or more original) than the way she does things now. It's when I forget that fact that we end up locking horns. Usually we get along pretty well because I'm able to laugh at all the stupid shit she does, or at least lend a sympathetic ear when she gets her bitch on about something.

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yota part 4-6goran 10/9/06 1:41 p.m.
     Re: yota part 4-6Johannes Gunnar 10/10/06 11:08 a.m.
           Re: yota part 4-6goran 10/10/06 12:11 p.m.
           Re: yota part 4-6RyokoTK 10/10/06 12:32 p.m.
                 Re: yota part 4-6Forrest of B.org 10/10/06 2:39 p.m.
                 Re: yota part 4-6goran 10/10/06 3:07 p.m.
                       Re: yota part 4-6RyokoTK 10/10/06 3:36 p.m.
                       Re: yota part 4-6Johannes Gunnar 10/10/06 10:45 p.m.
                             Re: yota part 4-6Forrest of B.org 10/11/06 7:28 p.m.
                                   i'll drop by at psyjnir later today :) *NM*Johannes Gunnar 10/12/06 3:10 a.m.
                                   Is psyjnir down? *NM*Document 10/19/06 8:43 a.m.
                                         the hotline server is up at the moment... *NM*Johannes Gunnar 10/19/06 10:07 a.m.
                 Re: yota part 4-6Adam Ashwell 10/10/06 4:03 p.m.
                       Re: yota part 4-6mitchellan 10/10/06 5:24 p.m.
                             Re: yota part 4-6RyokoTK 10/10/06 5:44 p.m.
                       Re: yota part 4-6RyokoTK 10/10/06 5:47 p.m.
                             viva la story forum! *NM*Johannes Gunnar 10/10/06 10:47 p.m.
                       Maturity and Internet ForumsForrest of B.org 10/10/06 8:04 p.m.
                             Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsRyokoTK 10/10/06 8:33 p.m.
                                   Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsForrest of B.org 10/10/06 10:24 p.m.
                                         Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsRyokoTK 10/11/06 4:23 a.m.
                                               AddendumRyokoTK 10/11/06 4:27 a.m.
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                                                                 That took you way too long, man. *NM*RyokoTK 10/11/06 7:14 p.m.
                                                                 ROFLCOPTER down! No LOL left behind! *NM* *NM*Forrest of B.org 10/11/06 7:30 p.m.
                                                                 Re: AddendumDocument 10/11/06 7:32 p.m.
                                                                 L.O.L! *NM*Johannes Gunnar 10/12/06 3:12 a.m.
                                   Re: Maturity and Internet Forumsgoran 10/11/06 12:30 a.m.
                                         Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAachim 10/11/06 2:48 a.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsRyokoTK 10/11/06 4:25 a.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet Forums *LINK*goran 10/11/06 6:33 a.m.
                                         Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsForrest of B.org 10/11/06 10:43 a.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/11/06 12:16 p.m.
                                                     Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsForrest of B.org 10/11/06 1:49 p.m.
                                                           Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/11/06 4:09 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Maturity and Internet Forumsgoran 10/11/06 11:56 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/12/06 6:44 a.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet Forumsgoran 10/11/06 3:02 p.m.
                                                     Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/11/06 4:11 p.m.
                                                     Social evolutionForrest of B.org 10/11/06 4:37 p.m.
                                                           Re: Social evolutionAaron Sikes 10/11/06 5:34 p.m.
                                                           Re: Social evolutiongoran 10/11/06 11:49 p.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet Forumsxyfbzi 10/15/06 2:50 p.m.
                                         Is this a movie quote? *NM*Document 10/11/06 5:44 p.m.
                                   Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsD-M.A. 10/11/06 4:51 a.m.
                                         Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsRyokoTK 10/11/06 5:04 a.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsD-M.A. 10/11/06 7:19 a.m.
                                                     Re: Maturity and Internet Forumstreellama 10/11/06 8:43 a.m.
                                                           Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsD-M.A. 10/11/06 9:05 a.m.
                                                                 *looks at thread* What have I unleashed!? *NM*Adam Ashwell 10/11/06 3:27 p.m.
                                                                       Re: *looks at thread* What have I unleashed!?Aaron Sikes 10/11/06 3:45 p.m.
                                                           Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/11/06 3:43 p.m.
                             Re: Maturity and Internet Forumstreellama 10/11/06 4:36 a.m.
                                   Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsAaron Sikes 10/11/06 9:26 a.m.
                                         Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsTycho 10/11/06 4:55 p.m.
                                               Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsRyokoTK 10/11/06 5:16 p.m.
                                                     I wasn't arguing your point, I agreed with it. *NM*Tycho 10/11/06 5:24 p.m.
                                                           Oops. *NM*RyokoTK 10/11/06 5:30 p.m.
                             Re: Maturity and Internet ForumsNicholai 10/11/06 9:19 a.m.
     Re: yota part 4-6D-M.A. 10/11/06 4:53 a.m.
           Re: yota part 4-6RyokoTK 10/11/06 5:26 a.m.

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