Something Awful writer Jon “@fart” Hendron spent the early hours of Christmas day retweeting some of the best seasonal avarice Twitter had to offer. Jonathan Mann set the tweets to a song.
The complete lack of perspective, appreciation, or even self-control that this world is breeding scares the living hell out of me. I don’t understand this level of privilege or sense of entitlement. I’ve never felt as though my parents were indebted to me for simply having me.
Personally, I am not sure if this is a sign of the times, or if things have always been this way. I am sure there have always been bratty kids who have ruined Christmas after Christmas. However, it feels like the bratty attitude is getting worse and more prevalent. Twitter doesn’t seem like a place for broadcasting your thoughts, but a way of validating them. The simple act of writing it down and sending it out into the world takes those base, lizard-brain feelings and crystallizes them into an actual stupid thought that then lives forever in the Library of Congress.
Everyone acts like children these days, and that’s why I don’t want to have one of my own. That, and I have no idea what the hell I am doing day to day.
I probably have had a Christmas where I didn’t get something I wanted, though I don’t think I ever asked for a lot. If my parents ever missed something, then I got over it enough to completely forget about it.
(via Guy Retweets Particularly Entitled Christmas Tweets, Becomes A Phenomenon | TechCrunch)
December 27, 2011, 3:01pm Permalink
