Zonie63
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Rupert Murdoch's crack investigative reporters have finally fingered the source of all our social ills.
Mr. Rogers.
As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
So, some professor at LSU thinks that Mister Rogers is responsible for the new generation feeling a sense of entitlement? It would seem to me that one could cite any number of factors for this phenomenon, if it even exists. I think that every generations tends to think of the younger generations as having it too easy, spoiled, and a sense of entitlement. My grandparents used to say that about our generation.
But what do we say now? "You kids today have it too easy. Why, back in my day, we used to have to get up and WALK to the TV to change the channel!"
The kids today seem to have to deal with things that our generation never dreamed of. For example, if we had cellphones when I was a teenager, then I probably would have felt more restricted, with my parents being able to track my movements and be able to call me when I was out late. A lot of built in excuses ("I couldn't find a phone!") would have been immediately invalidated. The schools were quite a bit more lax than they became in the years after I graduated. Schools started becoming much more restricted, with tighter security and fewer privileges than we used to have. My old school used to be an open campus, but now there's a huge fence around it and guards. It's like a fortress.
It's probably our fault, those of us who were juvenile delinquents during the late 1970s and early 80s. We ruined it for those who came after. They started getting more strict after we wrecked the place.
Things like underage smoking and drinking were treated with a nod and a wink, but now, there seems to be more of a societal microscope on that sort of thing. Nowadays, they have "zero tolerance," and in some cases, it gets ridiculous, with kids being busted for possession of aspirin or other over the counter medications. Half the t-shirts we wore in high school would likely be banned in today's schools. Now they have dress codes in some schools.
So, I try to cut the kids a bit of slack. They're just the products of the society into which they were born.
Besides, it's not Mister Rogers fault. It's Oscar the Grouch. He's the one to blame.
Do we really want someone like this influencing America's youth? 
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