🏈 Ohio State linebacker K'Vaughan Pope quits team during Akron game

[Tidestalker]

Well I agree with a lot of that. It all starts at home. I loom directly at Jalen Hurts and Mac Jones compared to a guy like this and can pretty much say "I bet they weren't raised on the same principles", and that can likely be proven by how they've all three handled diversity in their lives.

My question to you is, when do these guys start being considered adults? How old till we stop hand feeding them and treating them like adults? People that age are off at war, becoming millionaires, solving inefficiencies in the world. Then you have these premadonnas like this. All that being said, they have turned college football into such big business you have grown ups acting like children and sacrificing whomever for a piece of the pie. Do we expect a guy like this to learn how to manage millions of dollars one day if he makes the NFL?

It's all a mess. Immaturity and the threat of social exile kills so much in our society that it has me believing the inmates are running the jail. It's really sad.

Great question... I don't know if there's a black and white answer. To me, an 18 year old who's old enough to make the decision to die for his country is still a kid. Personally, I don't think I "got it" until after college.... And here I am 37, still don't "get it" that often

You and I agree on a lot of stuff, just where "the line" is drawn. But ultimately it's just this idea of how $$$ influences most things we'd wish were more pure in society. Capitalism is awesome, and also capable of bringing out the best and worst of people. The way social media and the media in general are being used is a great case study in that!

 

[TerryP]

And here I am 37,

Bookmarked.

 

[Tidestalker]

Photographs, railroads, telegraph, the repeating rifle, mass produced encyclopedias, radio, automobiles, silent movies, aircraft, antibiotics, talkies, phones, television, the integrated circuit, Dreamland, interstates, satellites, PCs, cell phones, laptops, tablets...the scale of human invention, and its impact on society, is not dwarfed by social media.

Social communication was once the province of newspapers and magazines, then they ceded a portion of that dominance to TV, and now the internet. As late as 1985, over 60 million newspapers were produced in the U.S. each day, and that's with the impact of People Magazine and the other rags, plus all of the Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous TV shows, etc.

The immediacy and on-demand aspects are different, but the base need is the same. There is nothing new under the sun.

Some good points. But would you say an adult parent spent as much time reading the paper or magazine as they do on their current day cell phones? When you went out to dinner, were people reading the newspaper in mid conversations? The amount of screen time between TV, laptops, and phones far exceeds any previous media phenomenon in man kind... Doesn't it? And in relation to human existence, we really don't understand yet how that impacts human development and what these current college age kids will look like after being around it or using it from basically the beginning of their existence.

Then if we want to get into how social media really impacts peoples self esteem, consciousness, ability to handle adversity, etc.... That's an entirely different issue which again, we don't really understand yet. But so far I think it's pretty clear there is an obvious potential for seriously negative outcomes that weren't a reality "back in the day" (posting immature things as a young person basically serving as a potential for future cancelling is one that stands out!).

 

[BamaFan334]

Great question... I don't know if there's a black and white answer. To me, an 18 year old who's old enough to make the decision to die for his country is still a kid. Personally, I don't think I "got it" until after college.... And here I am 37, still don't "get it" that often

You and I agree on a lot of stuff, just where "the line" is drawn. But ultimately it's just this idea of how $$$ influences most things we'd wish were more pure in society. Capitalism is awesome, and also capable of bringing out the best and worst of people. The way social media and the media in general are being used is a great case study in that!

I agree that Capitalism is great and a huge proponent of it obviously, but unfortunately social media makes fun of the have nots and they dream all day long of being what a 30 second video shows (not realizing their entire day or lives are not on display). They are in such debt to try to keep up it's ruining the country. Zero humility anymore, and so many think just because they wake up and are breathing every day that they deserve quiet honestly what they can't afford or have worked hard enough for. I'm 37 as well and have what I feel is a more old school mentality, so I sit at odds with some on how I think, but you're right, you and I think a lot alike for the most part with a few small misses.