an extraordinary machine

"In a world were the focus is solely on the consumer: what ‘I’ can gain, what ‘I’ deserve, kindness is the first to go. Once kindness is gone, disdain sets in until eventually self entitlement is common. When children are raised in this environment they kick, fight and scream until the parent relents and allows anything. Essentially the child is raised in an environment where anything is available and everything is promised. Children of this environment are, to put it mildly, stupid. Their focus is self-interest, their attention span is short, they lack intelligence because they spend most of their waking hours playing video games, especially the boys. Does this sound cynical? Perhaps. But all one has to do is take a few weeks, go out into public places and watch. It’s there, and it’s fucking scary."