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Originally Posted by jammer139
What is wrong with some people to destroy 120 tree saplings planted by Reforest London?
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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
They have whatever disease that possesses some people to affix trucknutz to their pickup trucks, or to roll coal, or to tear up a soccer field or park with their vehicle, or to modify their mufflers to make shotgun sounds, or to race extremely loud motorcycles late at night, or to toss their Rimmie's and McShittie's garbage out their car window (along with a few empties of Bud Light or Laker Lager, for good measure). Assholery.
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A few thoughts.
There is still a strong possibility that a lot of what you see is just traditional frustrated youth, a la “Rebel Without a Cause”. Problems at home, with a girlfriend, school, or social circles – and that demographic still emotionally grossly unequipped to deal with it. Youth has traditionally struggled with such things for time immortal, and often will take it out with some late night vandalism. So rip up some plants, throw bottles at traffic, graffiti some ugly words. Senseless, but nothing new.
And then there are the guys with the vehicles doing burnouts on the road, doughnuts in a park, modifying their vehicle to be extra loud, and driving like a madman/racing. Young men are doing what inexperienced male adults pumped to the max with testosterone are bound to do when they get their hands a powerful machine. The reasons are obvious: intense drive for competition with other males, social status, attracting females, the thrill of the ride, and occasionally even a fascination with the engineering aspect of the machine. It’s the same reason why they are incorporated into military service at that age: full of piss and vinegar and too inexperienced. That again has been going on for a long time. Nothing new.
If there is a concerning aspect to all of it is the more modern influence of media culture – especially on an demographic that has never known a world without the internet and more importantly
social media. Inexperienced individuals are incessantly hypersaturated in a media environment that produces content that strives to outdo, outcrazy, be more outrageous than the content posted yesterday. It compels such inexperienced individuals to think and behave the same way. So, take the traditional (mis)behaviors I outlined above, and amp it up by an order of magnitude by adding the toxin of social media and we see the results now. To make such behavior even more tempting is the idea taken from social media of acting anomalously (as no one uses their real names online) resulting in no consequences for one’s behavior. A lot of that seems to have migrated into actions in the real physical world: a sense that real world actions will likely not result in any consequences severe enough to act as a deterrent. The result is that the traditional rebelliousness/frustrations/antisocial behaviors of youth have been boosted to unheard levels of intensity.
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