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Originally Posted by Halx
I think its pretty late in the game to be introducing social entropy. Like my example stated above, it only becomes a problem once there's a name for it. This society has been going along for a while and all of a sudden entropy is kicking in? If you can define a noticeable difference between your generation and today's generation, wouldn't it mean that the generation before you had seen at least a fractional change from theirs to yours? Mathematically speaking, we're envisioning one exceedingly tight society at the dawn of our modern civilization.
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Speaking only for myself, I am not saying that entropy is happening all of a sudden because it just occurred to me or because we are talking about it. I am saying that it is accelerating - and I'm not sure how or why anyone can argue that point being that
everything is accelerating.
It's just an observation, no one should take it personally.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Semantics monster hungry!
I feel that there is a big difference between "boys" and "young men" as far as this thread goes. Teenagers have an overwhelmingly high amount of idiocy per brain cell versus someone my age, who might still make fart jokes or call his girlfriend a cow but has an IRA to contribute to and a job that doesn't involve a nametag or funny hat.
On a long enough time line... nobody is safe from being a douchebag.
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An office job and an IRA do not necessarily denote a heightened maturity.
I saw this segment on 60 minutes last weekend I think it was.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3475200.shtml