Are today's young people capable of rational thinking? I've had experience of great efforts in getting something across to young people who are on their job and can't understand a simple solution to a problem when I point it out, and keep saying it can't be done and trying to get off with somethong different and then, when my repeated words finally begin to sink in, sometimes it's more like they've suddenly had the brilliant idea and have to convince me, the dolt that was refusing to understand them, explaining me exactly what I had been saying all along.
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Originally Posted by TZK
What if it was simply the case that as people get older they become less able to learn complex new ideas and adapt to new ways of thinking?
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"But Granny I'm not saying those ain't a cool pair of jeans I mean you just gotta see I can't show up at a Bon Jovi concert in like that ya know it's just obvious an' it wouldn't go with the right kinda lipstick and piercing and tatoos and anyway how could they see I've got the right underware on could ya even imagine anyone doin' it?"
"You mean you'd pass for a square?"
"For a
whaaaaaaat? What the heck's it gotta do with
squaaaaares an' stuff? How can ya not understand would you have shown up at a Bon Jovi like
that when
you were a girl?"
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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
I know this isn't a political board but I think that is what we have going on now (incapable of adaptation)...
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Is it 'cause I'm just an old fogey that I can't quite see the nexus?
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