Thread: Are people stupid or am I getting old?

I'm only 38, but I feel like I'm old some days....well, either that, or the general populus is becoming more and more stupid these days.

I went to the new Transformers movie last month and was pretty excited to see Leonard Nimoy playing a key voice roll in the movie. When I went back to work, not a single person in the office, doctors included, knew who Nimoy was.

I was talking to a junior high student the other day in the office and he said that he studied American history last year. When I asked what he found the most interesting during the Civil War, he couldn't provide a single answer.

Forget politics...

At any rate, I don't know what's happening...is it that people are fundamentally uneducated or am I just getting old.

Could a couple members under 20 tell me that they know who Leonard Nimoy is without the use of Wikipedia...make an old man feel good.

Andy Warhol said we would all have 15 minutes of fame. I think that was in 1968 and I didn't understand what he meant. In about 1998 I was putting a tattoo on a 20 year old gal and she saw an autographed photo of Lyle Tuttle on my wall at the shop. She asked who he was. I told her that he was a friend of mine who had owned a tattoo shop in San Francisco for 50 years and had tattooed Janis Joplin. She said,"Is that supposed to mean something to me ?" Talk about feeling old ...... links provided for interested young uns.

I vote for stupid. Oh and I'm 36

Michael

Red,

I get it....I completely understand.

I'm 31 (not near as old as you are, grandpa ) , but I find that many my own age are uninformed or mis-informed about so many things. I find there are many people younger than me who are difficult to have conversations with. But, I'm thankful that I have a good group of friends where I live, who are intelligent, motivated individuals. It makes for good conversation.

The answer is: BOTH.

This particular rabbit hole goes deeper than you might imagine. I'm only 25, but experienced plenty of ignorance on the part of those younger to me. If you work with kids in any capacity, it's unavoidable. I always ask myself "Is it because I was a smart kid and only really hung around with smart kids? Were people this ignorant when I was in school, but I just didn't know it?"

I tutored a kid who claimed he was a movie buff, but the list of classic (even recent classic) films he had not seen, not to mention the list of actors he had never heard of, would be too long to post.

It's a daily occurrence at 54!!
Most of the younger people I come in contact with are fairly intelligent, so I guess I'm lucky

The problem is that people don't need to learn anything anymore. If they ever need anything, they just whip out their phone, lap top, ipad, etc..., look up the answer, spout it off like they are smart and then promptly forget everything they just looked up.

Theseus

The problem is that people don't need to learn anything anymore. If they ever need anything, they just whip out their phone, lap top, ipad, etc..., look up the answer, spout it off like they are smart and then promptly forget everything they just looked up.

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

I think every generation thinks the previous generation is dumber. I know who Leanord Nimoy is, but that is more of a pop culture question.