WTF is wrong with our young people??

[NNadir]

247. The OP here is a cranky old man complaining...

...about "these kids today."

As an educated academic you are probably aware that language contains both a connotative and denotatative sense.

I have chosen to focus on the connotative sense of the entire thread, which I take as announcement from someone who is obviously in my generation that there's something wrong with kids today.

I chose the connotative sense of your response to my post which explicitly referred to bars.

I have voted in every election in my lifetime as well. Big deal. That point has nothing to do with the connotation here, which drips with contempt for a class of people, young people.

I have spent the last 30 years of my life thinking about the future world I am soon to leave behind.

I did what I could to fight the ignorance that brought us to this point, clearly to no avail. Perhaps not missing elections in my life helped, been down to the level of fire commissioner, but I do know that the demographic that most reliably supports the orange criminal in the White House is mine. The world would be much improved if at least some of the members of my demographic would just shut up and die.

I care about the future in which I will not participate, since I will die soon enough.

I embrace these kids and think them better than us.