Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution'

[NM_Birder]

67. absolute it is more complex than I-phones,....

I would love to discuss further, but the full on anti hippie rant from the other poster was more entertaining than a discussion about the negative effect social media has, on the real world social skills of todays youth. I'm not even a hippie, although being BORN in 1969 does that make me a child of the 60's ? lol it was awesome...you should read it.

Social Media, and the utter dependence on it by the vast majority of today's youth, is crippling their ability function in an adult world, that still requires human face to face contact.

Student debt is a great example,.... how many kids go 60k or better into debt, BORROWING money to live on instead of working while going to school, only to graduate with a degree that only proves they attended college. Then are SHOCKED to find out what payments are on 60K ? They are not ALL attending law school or med school, the education system in pumping out social media experts with little or no ability to survive in an adult world. Graduates with a generic degree of accomplishment, and 30-40-60 or 100k in debt are cannon fodder in the real world, face booking and tweeting doesn't prepare them for life after the cord is cut. And 10 bucks an hour minimum wage isn't the answer, but most have been convinced it is.

I'm 45, worked my way up the food chain to PM a decade or so ago, fairly quick but not uncommon. I'm in the prime years of my career. For just a fleeting moment I was concerned about the younger bulls pushing me out the way over the next 10 years, ...... not so much anymore. The crop of "up and commers", have a severe lack of ability to control teams of people in the real world, if anything they are making my position even MORE secure, as the crop almost ready for harvest now is even LESS able to understand life "unplugged".

As for the Arab Spring, and Canadian student protest ? perfect examples of events that will empower the youth of today here in the States, ....... at least online. Meanwhile, my parking space is secure.