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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2290740, member: 6761"] definitely, BOOM! But, hey, it's still summer, so let's start an argument. Geno also apparently said this (and we know he does say this a lot): [I]In reality no one cares. In today’s society with social media everyone is worried about what everyone else thinks of them. People have become obsessed with trying to show everyone else what they’re doing through social media and getting as many likes and followers as possible. But in reality, no one cares about what you’re doing, but is only cared about what you think of them. It’s easy to give into today’s trends of individualism, but relationships and real life interaction go way farther. The special kids don’t give into this. They keep their personal business to themselves, don’t care what others think, and spend time investing in making others better. [/I] Well, David Riesman published [B]in 1950 [/B]his best-selling book that made the cover of [I]Time Magazine [/I]called [I]The Lonely Crowd[/I], pretty much saying the same thing. That would be, if you're counting, even before Geno was born. So, it's not just "kids today." Maybe it's more evident today, but the transition between "character" and "personality" or between "inner-directed" and "outer-directed" is something that sociologists think is a reflection of modernity generally. When did "modernity" start? Some would say the 1870s/80s (discovery of oil in Pennsylvania bringing on the 2nd Industrial Rev & invention of the camera a bit earlier); others might say 1905-6 (Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity); others maybe even a little later. But Geno's point of view is that of a self-made immigrant who can still well remember the poverty of his native Italy, and so his perspective is a bit shorter than most. (And by the way, since the ancient Greeks [Hesiod's Ages of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroes, and Iron] every generation claims that previous generations were greater and more noble, more sacrificing, more disciplined, etc.) [/QUOTE]

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