As anyone who has ever read any of my blogs will know, I work at the international airport here in Hickville AKA Calgary, Alberta.
And I have to say the neverending barrage of stupidness that is forced my way every day of the week never ceases to amaze me. Airport securiy badges seem to also double as magnets for stupidity.
Now I can only speak for this particular city for the most part, but I do see international travellers from everywhere every day, but IMHO it seems that ppl under 25 seem to be vastly more intelligent than the older people in society.
For example, I had an elderly person today ask me where to go to get on a USA flight. Normally this would be an acceptable question, if not for the (and this is its acutal mesuremeant) 5m x 0.5m sign inbehind me that said UNITED STATES on a red and blue background, in english and en Français. Not to mention the four 2.5m x 1m USA flags hanging from the cieling above me.
Or one of my favourites, people asking where the ABM or Smoking areas are. FFS look at the godamn signs you idiots. they're literally everywhere. Didn't you learn how to read?
Sadly though I think the real culprit here is society. Decades of mindless TV drivel and idiotic acvertisments, have taken their tole on today's population. Gone are the days when people would take accountability for their actions, instead they expect to be lead by the hand, to whatever they want, that way if somewhere along the way a fuckup occurs they themselves don't need to be held accountable.
95% of Today's 'adult' (and I use this term loosley) population is bareley more than cattle, lead by the hand from point A to point B, doing what ever the magic box (aka TV) tells them, and believing all of it also. A few days ago I was speaking German with a young girl who couldn't speak english very well, when some fifty somthing person in line behind her told us to go back to Russia.
This type of idiocy is a plague upon today's society, and I think we (the 15-25 year olds) of today's world are quite possibly the first generation to surpass their parents in terms of intelligence.
Now, I realise that I am an arrogant person, I'm the first to admit it, so you can probably dismiss some of this as just a rant, but I still maintain, that today's youth are possibly the best thing to happen to the world. Indifferent to a fault, we don't by into the moronics of today's society, instead trusting in what we know, and what we learn, rather than what we're told.
I still maintain Humanity is a plague on this earth, and the sooner we're gone the better off the planet will be, but as long as we're here, I'm glad that today's youth are finally starting to stand up for themselves and start questioning tradition.