End of the world

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Funny, I remember my father saying the same thing about me. I also remember him telling me that his father told him the same thing too.

I guess every "older" generation feels that a "younger" generation is going to hell in a handbasket. But somehow we seem to survive.

Just wait until the Generation Z (or what ever letter we are up to) gets to be my age, I bet they will be saying the same thing about the next younger generation (will they start the alphabet all over again?)

Yeah but there will probably time that the next generation will screw it up big time. If deterioration comes in steps, utter destruction won't come until the last one.

To borrow a nation example like Greece, their politicians cared only about re-election and didn't have the vision to build up their economy and relied on debt to appease the voters. Now Greece is paying up their politician decades old mistakes.

Originally Posted by Armistead

Spoken like a true Christian

I wouldn't know about that. Even if that was sarcasm like I said I wouldn't know about that.

What I hear from experience of my own family members and my own are quite disturbing.
For example many people who found their car hit on the road by middle class family car or even above would find that the hitter would deny ever hitting their car despite the obvious. They would say the bent was already there before. They are not exactly too poor to compensate the damage. It's a matter of attitude.

Some nutty people would wave handgun through their car windows when trying to change lane in busy intersection.
A few made it to paper because they actually shot their gun in road rage accident over seemingly trivial things.

There's a trend we here call the land mafia where they harass large land owner using thugs and through court in the hope to blackmail them into giving large sum of money just for them to stop their harassment and disturbing any construction project on the site. This would not work if the judiciary system was clean. The problem is even if you're obviously right the judge would ask for money so he would win you in court. Lowest court asked for the equivalent of 12.000 bucks and if this continues to higher and higher court through appeal you can imagine just how much money will have to be paid so that the court would win your supposedly sure to win case. The police would not do much and even if they are given money as what they asked they simply took the money without fulfilling their responsibility dealing with the thugs and harassment with threats of violence. The only positive side to all this is their victim are bloody rich people not some poor soul.

The difference between Singapore and Indonesia is that in Singapore everything is concentrated/centralized which would make things a million times worse if you're the victim while here everybody can be a scum.


I tell you it's all rotten society here.