Normally when something is described as "the best response ever", you expect it to be either deep or humorous. This, on the other hand, is a poorly informed rant.
It doesn't even have anything to do with cell phones, and also mentions only a marginal use of computers.
Now, It's been about a decade since I've been in the school system, but I'm pretty sure that his understanding of how school is today is wrong.
Here are some of the issues
- I'm pretty sure that brown paper bag lunches weren't, and probably still aren't particularly uncommon.
- I'm pretty sure that phys ed is still required, and that regular tennis shoes are still allowed in most places.
- I'm pretty sure that they still teach reading, writing, grammar, and even letter writing in elementary school.
- Unless the guy is really really old, I'm pretty sure that he had TV. I also suspect that he was able to play board and card games, and possibly even Role playing games like D&D.
- I'm pretty sure that king of the hill and other dangerous games such as Red Rover, and "Smear the *****" still exist.
- I'm also pretty sure that common cuts and scrapes don't involve a trip to the emergency room, however some people might forgo the iodine in favor of this newfangled chemical called "water"
- Although I'm only mildly sure that first aid kits existed back then, I'm pretty sure that people get a bee sting and go without one all the time today.
- Unless this guy is really crazy old, they also had Penicillin.
- A lawsuit involving playing king of the hill on a pile of gravel might have happened, but I somehow suspect that there was more too it than just that. If you actually tried to sue someone over your kid getting a minor injury on a gravel pile, then I'm pretty sure that you would lose.
- I don't really get the "being told you're from a dysfunctional family" bit. Nobody that I knew had been told that either, at least to my knowledge.
- Most people don't go to group therapy or anger management today even. It's not super uncommon, but I'd wager that less than 50% I.E. most.
- If we take what he's saying at face value and assume that he grew up in a time before antibiotics, then the mortality rate from disease from that time was much higher than it is today.
This guy seems so out of touch with reality that it appears as though is outlook on today world comes through a medium that selects the most shocking and most sensationalized stories around.
I think that he's the one who only observes the world across an electronic screen.
So yeah, If we only leave the parts of his rant that have merit, then it looks like this
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