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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1200314" data-attributes="member: 812">Eh, you guys sound like the bunch of old fogies in every Elvis movie who complain about "kids these days and their darn rock 'n' roll!"It's not like it was when we were kids. Kids today don't know anything, and they don't even know they don't know anything. The education system's falling apart. Everybody's stupid and lazy and ignorant and it's all going to collapse.People have been saying this for, at a conservative estimate, 500 years. Martin Luther said this 500 years ago. And you know what? The world hasn't ended, intellectual progress has continued, and we know more about the world than ever before. Martin was wrong. So are you.It's sure fun to think of the world as populated by morons. It's nice to sit smugly at home, laughing at people on Jay Leno.The people I meet in my day-to-day life constantly surprise me with their intelligence and knowledge and sensitivity. Sometimes I encounter doofuses, sometimes I come across people of startling ignorance, but for the most part the people I meet are not significantly stupider or less ignorant than I am -- usually far less so, actually. But maybe I should be on Jay Leno....Sorry, you can go back to your doomsaying now.</blockquote>