Amazed, we are….simply amazed.

Posted on January 7, 2013 by KG

‘How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
Young people’s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966
….Researchers also found a disconnect between the student’s opinions of themselves and actual ability.
While students are much more likely to call themselves gifted in writing abilities, objective test scores actually show that their writing abilities are far less than those of their 1960s counterparts…’
We all know the reasons for this. I had a young guy a few years ago tell me–with a straight face–that his was “the smartest generation ever to walk the earth”. And he was more than a little upset when Wabbit fell around laughing….

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42 Responses to Amazed, we are….simply amazed.

  1. Findalis says:
    January 7, 2013 at 02:01

    I would like to know who told these worthless pieces of shit that their shit doesn’t smell?

    IT DOES!!

  2. Ronbo says:
    January 7, 2013 at 02:41

    This is nothing new…

    I remember back in early 1970s when I was stationed in Arlington, Virginia with the U.S. Army and got good view of the thousands of college students from across the country who came to the anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C.

    The thing that most stood out in my mind was now arrogant and ignorant of basic facts about the war in Vietnam.

    May 14, 1970….

    “The Army is losing the war in Southeast Asia!” they would yell at my troops guarding The White House.

    “Name the battles U.S. Army has lost since 1965?” we soldiers would yell back.

    “We don’t have to because you’re losing G.I. Joe” they would respond.

    Then we’d throw the tear gas, charge the mob with fixed bayonets and loaded 7.62mm M-14A1 assault rifles, and treat the Leftist college scum to hands on experience with losing battles…. :mrgreen:

    Yet, they believed themselves MORALLY superior to us Vietnam veterans and active duty troops simply because were AGAINST the war.

  3. Darin says:
    January 7, 2013 at 03:17

    Everybody thinks their little snow flake is special,in fact they tell them so daily,so much so what we end up with are the little know it all narcissistic brats we have now.

    If you have had the pleasure of weeding through potential employees in recent years you would figure the percentage of know nothing brats is near 90%.Where I work to put it bluntly if a person can’t read a ruler and aren’t willing to learn they are pretty much useless.The most recent auditions for even a helpers position revealed several who not only couldn’t read a ruler,they also couldn’t tell time on a dial clock face.

    All these kids want to do now and days is text each other,do drugs and goof off.

    • KG says:
      January 7, 2013 at 07:44

      It gets pretty disheartening, doesn’t it, Darin?

      • Darin says:
        January 7, 2013 at 08:00

        It certainly is,all this talk of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US.We no longer have enough people with the skills needed let alone enough ambition to get off the sofa.

  4. GW says:
    January 7, 2013 at 03:22

    One of the things of which I stand in awe is the prose and logic of the people at the time of America’s founding. To read their personal letters is to step back into an era where the ability to communicate in long, written form was the only means of communicating to groups or to individuals at a distance. Their ability to express themselves in writing with clarity and brevity is far beyond the ability of most writers of this day.

    The unwarranted arrogance of many of the young today is, I think, in large measure, a function of raw historical ignorance. They are not taught history – or at least not taught it except in short, deeply corrupt anecdotes spun to promote leftist ideology. I bet there is not one in 10,000 who can explain why the Crusades started, not 1 in 10,000 who has read the founding document of our legal system, the Magna Carta, or not 1 in 10,000 who has bothered to read even a page out of the Federalist Papers, explaining the many arguments that went into the making of our Constitution.

    These children stand on the shoulders of all those who came before them, and the thoughts in their heads are a murky distillation of all of man’s collective knowledge from the dawn of time. That alone should be something that promotes tremendous humility. But it is their failure to realize that which allows them to arrogantly assume superiority, and I would posit that such is precisely what the left wants to promote. For when they are superior to the rest of us, then they are justified in ruling our lives – at least in their minds.

  5. GW says:
    January 7, 2013 at 03:23

    I really should proof read before hitting send. Last sentence, first paragraph is virtually nonsensical. Sigh . . . .
    I took the liberty of fixing it, GW. KG :cool:

  6. Flashman says:
    January 7, 2013 at 03:51

    This is an old psych gag.

    You can pretty much take any group of people, give them a self-assessment questionnaire and “discover” that the average person rates themselves smarter and better informed than their peers.

    What brings uni students into the picture are two factors:
    1. This exercise is, as I say, shtick that can be [and often is] run at the first lecture of any social science course as an icebreaker and warm-up.
    2. Uni students are very convenient “convenient samples” since one is guaranteed a lecture theater of 300 warm bodies; most of whom will agree to participate [good response rates] in the research for no cost [self-evidently an important factor]. Note that a remarkable amount of published soc-sci and business-subject research is based on such “campus samples”.

    Incidentally, a wrinkle on this bit of fun is to take a generic horoscope from any newspaper, cut and paste the contents around a bit, then sit down with a sample of respondents for individual “psych consulting” sessions. At the end of the session, each respondent is given a “personal report” that is nothing more than the bogus mish-mash prepared earlier. Each respondent is then asked to rate the accuracy of said profile.

    Guaranteed: an average rating that exceeds 8 on a scale of 1-10. [An ancient psych-class gag that dates back to the late 1940’s.] http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wink.gif

    • KG says:
      January 7, 2013 at 07:42

      I wouldn’t be so ready to dismiss it, Flash. For example, it’s a fact that modern students score very poorly indeed in writing skills. And that’s objectively demonstrable.
      The poor writing skills stem in part from poor thinking skills and no sleight of hand is necessary to demonstrate that.
      The other aspect of this is the very, very poor vocabulary of modern students. And if somebody doesn’t have the words, then they can’t structure thought processes.
      There are plenty of apologists for ignorant little narcissists but the hard fact is that almost no first year university student today could pass high-school exams from only forty years ago.

  7. Sci Fi Guy says:
    January 7, 2013 at 05:16

    Speaking of ‘entitlement’, I see one of Barry’s socialist lap dogs wants to amend the Presidents 2 term period. Dictator for life, anyone?
    http://twitchy.com/2013/01/05/rep-jose-serrano-reintroduces-bill-to-repeal-presidential-term-limit/

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      January 7, 2013 at 05:32

      To be followed by Queen Malia the First?

      • Malcolm says:
        January 7, 2013 at 16:26

        Mister Gantt, sir.
        I would have to disagree with you about Queen Malia as the followers of the 6th century death cult treat women as chattel or at best second class citizens. :smile:

        • The Gantt Guy says:
          January 7, 2013 at 17:32

          Ahh, good point, brother! Perhaps Trayvon Martin, who “could have been [his] son” has a brother somewhere who could assume the throne?

          Or perhaps King Barry’s polygamist father had other sons acceptable to King Barry, who could do the job?

  8. George says:
    January 7, 2013 at 06:04

    I had an hour with a young Ivy League grad recently. He was in the magazine business and nursed writing dreams. The conversation, though pleasant, was stilted.

    We talked about writing and it’s desired effect, to engage a reader in a story. At the end I was left wondering why an intelligent young person, who could not carry a conversation, thought that they could communicate in written form. I think it is because Twitter and other forms of blurt have become the lingua franca – that, and only conversing during the ads on TV. Machine gunners are trained to discipline themselves to fire short bursts, but it seems this has carried over to the ‘me’ generation.
    People no longer converse or tell a yarn.
    They ‘connect’.
    And they are boring.

    • KG says:
      January 7, 2013 at 07:34

      Spot-on, George.
      Damn good comments, and it’s relief to find so many people who feel the same way.
      I had to mentor a couple of young John Deere apprentices in NZ a while ago, and it was a sobering experience. Straight out of school, they lacked the most basic thinking skills and had almost NO ability to communicate in writing.
      Later conversations showed them to be utterly ignorant of history–except they knew with frightening certainty that whitey was a colonialist exploiter and oppressor. That was about the sum of their knowledge.
      It’s the complaint of many an old man down through history, but I really believe that teenagers now are the most ignorant, vicious, self-centred assholes since Tyrannosaurus Rex.
      Teenager: “who was he?”

      • Cadwallader says:
        January 7, 2013 at 08:26

        The problem may well be the advent of the “teenager” as a separate grouping which I understand developed after WW2. The sector labelled “teenager” has been routinely deified in films, etc since. From that time we have been encouraged to worship at the altar of “youth,” for flimsy reasons.
        I gave up TV viewing approximately 20 years ago but recall the typical sit-com (or is that a typo? “shit-com”) involved smart-arsed brats exhibiting themselves to be adept at ridiculing their seniors and betters in the pursuit of humour.

        • KG says:
          January 7, 2013 at 08:48

          Yep. It’s grown into the full-blown worship of yoof, at a time when youths have never been so bloody useless.
          Of course there are plenty of exceptions, but what we’re talking about here is the general trend.

      • Redbaiter says:
        January 7, 2013 at 08:44

        “who was he?” (Tyrannosaurus Rex)

        A band from the seventies or something right?

  9. KG says:
    January 7, 2013 at 07:28

    “But it is their failure to realize that which allows them to arrogantly assume superiority, and I would posit that such is precisely what the left wants to promote.”
    Nail, meet hammer.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  10. kowtow says:
    January 7, 2013 at 08:33

    I recall the discussions around “the greatest generation” some years back. Those brave young men who stormed the beaches in the Pacific and then France in 1944 . No said the leftists ,the greatest generation were those that fought the civil rights campaign in the ’60s.The men who stormed the beaches were racist bigots!

    The ’60’s generation have left their legacy. A crashed indebted economy,a sex and drugs addled populace wedded to welfare,illegal immigration exacerbating high unemployment and a society full of fear and self doubt.

    Those veterans of the Pacific and Europe must wonder what it was all for.

  11. Darin says:
    January 7, 2013 at 08:40

    Of course it’s not the kids faults,they are just empty vessels for what society puts in them.They are being failed,just like we are by our piss poor education systems.

    When Madonna and Lady Gaga show up in a history book,but George Washington and Thomas Edison don’t,you really can’t fault the kids.

    Ever seen some of the modern textbooks especially ones dealing with history? Completely scary the utter lack of information there is unless it’s teaching how white=evil or communism = good.

  12. KG says:
    January 7, 2013 at 08:55

    I just finished reading Bill Bryson’s wonderful ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ for the third time, and in it he mentions that both Captain FitzRoy and Darwin were a mere 23 and 22 years old respectively when the Beagle made that famous voyage.
    23 and 22……..yet people make excuses for lamers and yobs nowadays on the basis that “they’re still young”!

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      January 7, 2013 at 09:09

      And yet the Mad Ranga was young and naive, a mere slip of a girl when, well into her 30’s and a partner at a union lawfare firm, she set about committing fraud by establishing the vehicle by which her “boyfriend” stole and laundered large sums of money from the Australian “Workers” Union!

      • KG says:
        January 7, 2013 at 09:28

        The poor wee thing…a child caught up in corruption beyond her ken.
        There’s a bridge a few hundred klm from here which I have an option to buy. Care to send me 50k for a half share?

  13. KG says:
    January 7, 2013 at 09:17

    This is fun:
    ‘Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command.
    With President Obama back in office and his life-saving “fiscal cliff” bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters.
    “What happened that my Social Security withholding’s in my paycheck just went up?” a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. “My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don’t feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna’ hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?”….’

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/
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  14. Darin says:
    January 7, 2013 at 09:56

    Well they can’t think for themselves so someone has to do it :mrgreen:

    Also see the results from the “Cash for clunkers”program,as predicted a complete disaster-

    http://news.yahoo.com/why-cash-clunkers-hurt-environment-more-helped-024848694.html

  15. KG says:
    January 7, 2013 at 10:04

    Gawd….the history of environmentalism is a litany of unintended consequences.

  16. RWT says:
    January 8, 2013 at 07:06

    It’ll be interesting to see how their self-esteem is doing when mom and dad are gone, the moneys run out and they’re doing tricks to get food.

  17. KG says:
    January 8, 2013 at 07:36

    Indeed!