And I wish there was a website that connected children to old people. Because I don't think that it's gun control laxity that makes children get violent at school.
Anyways, it occured to me that maybe one reason why this is happening is because it seems as though the young generation are much more disconnected from the older generations, especially the elderly these days. Do you agree?
Hundreds of parents and grandparents get taught to use technology by their children. Which means that their children accessed the information before they did. Which means that their children were relying on their own inner compass to guide them through a crazy mass of information. Luckily, and perhaps predictably, they stuck mostly to their own particular brand of entertainment. And, luckily, they found humour in the gross and the kinky.
However, from another perspective this could be seen as frightening because the young teaching the old is a supposed sign of a coming apocalypse, and also because, let's face it, kids are immature, and lack wisdom and experience, hopefully, in comparison to the older generations.
Anyways, so what if we made a website that connected the elderly to the youth through live video web-cam chat. Like chat-roulette styles. Wouldn't this connect the generations? Give them dialogue so the young can learn from the vast wisdom of the old?
No. There would just be a lot of pranks. The lewd and dismal answer was glaring me in the face the moment I spawned the idea. This is so sad to me because it means that the young potentially have little to no respect for the elderly......
But this is all hypothetical, of course.
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