There is something about this Generation’s Heroes that is making the world suck. God, I know I sound like my parents when I say that, but there is some reality there. I’m specifically referencing the Youtubers. I’ve watched my boys go from smart and fair gamers who accept loss with dignity to screaming haters who assume every loss is rooted in some sort of hack or cheat. Watching the ‘tube shows they watch explains it to me–that is all these you tube gamers do. They complain and scream and act out and that behavior trickles down to my kids who somehow think it is okay.
It isn’t.
I’m tired of having to correct behaviors based on crap they see on the tube (said every parent ever). Yet I appreciate the social persuasion of such things. The tube is their ‘cable tv’ and they have greater access to it than I had to the TV when I was a kid. They are programmed by it and the programming sucks. I’m fighting to help them realize how unreal that world is as well as teaching them that hard work is what breeds success, not likes. It is a long and tiring battle with many losses along the way.
Ultimately they’ll figure it out–or they will just get popular on social media and wind up filthy rich and lazy.
Some Thoughts:
- Unstable Unicorns might be my favorite new game.
- Added a gate at the base of my stairs for pet purposes (separate the dog and cat). Sadly I did forget to leave the stair light on and crashed into the low gate. Ouch.
- 111+ in AZ. It’s so hot that the ground is starting to look wavy.
- Tournament ended in Cali the way it always was going to end. The Argos won, but my boy wasn’t there to hoist a trophy. All good though. He gets this fall season and then he is done forever with the youth tackle.
- I need a haircut.