Are we creating a complacent generation? 57 Articles

by Tracy Almiqdad

Complacency is on the rise, and has been for the last several decades. While we have made huge strides in technology, it seems that with each advance we lose more of our sense of community. Our world is in a state of overl...read more

by Ray Fauteux

There is little doubt in my mind that we are creating a complacent generation. It seems that today's generation has far too many 'perks' that make life just a little too simple. A simplicity that stalls the growth of th...read more

by Angela S. Young

Characteristics that make a family-friendly community I don't know that this generation is more complacent than the generation before it and the generation before that one. Complacency has been a problem for many years, a...read more

by Shari Atwater

We are creating a complacent generation, but it's not the first one. I believe we are in the midst of the second complacent generation, and it's because we've dumbed our children down for the last twenty to thirty years......read more

by John Neely

Those that have everything value nothing. Those that have nothing value everything. This rule although not perfect, does possess a strong element of truth. One of the problems in today's society is that this present ge...read more

by Paul Lines

Are we building a complacent society? There is little doubt that the answer to that question should be yes. As the civilosed world develops, we are creating a generation of people who are satisfied and contented with their...read more

by Nancy L. Young-Houser

A complacent American generation actually began several decades ago in the United States after the finish of World War I and World War II, when our men and boys came back home to the wecoming arms of a country which had dr...read more

by Tanilan Prescott

"Mom, can I have a PSP?" "Mom, can I have a iPod?" "Mom, my teacher doesn't like me, because she give me too much homework?" Does any of this sound familiar to you? I hear this every single day. Not just from my...read more

by Christopher Kendalls

Society has been complacent for a good 30 years now where have you been? American society first starting becoming complacent in the early seventies it is just that the country was in denial and was caught off guard when c...read more

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by Marcus Brooks

There's an old saying. "The next generation shall have it easier than the one before." The generation before me battled for their civil rights in the streets. They protested a confusing war that the sacrificing of young...read more

by Gemma Wiseman

Are teenagers today evidence of a new and upcoming, complacent generation? In teenage behavior patterns and attitudes, we see glimpses of parents, teachers, white and blue collar workers and politicians in the making. In t...read more

by Pamela Kay

Have we allowed our children to become complacent? Do we allow them challenges to help them grow in character and knowledge of how life works? Or have we, in a blind attempt to help them by pass the problems we faced, left...read more

by John Sollazzo

Things of a second nature. Like a third eye seeing into the depths of your or someone else inner secrets. Motor skills like a sloth looking at a caterpillar, running away. Dimensions of tranquility from another time. Real...read more

by Michael Carlin

Complacency is perhaps the most deleterious of all societal afflictions. Complacency is occurs when delusion strikes society at large, causing the constituents of it to overlook the evils ruining their world. World War II ...read more

by Perry Hotter

Most people-excepting the Presidents advisor's-are familiar with The Boy Who Cried Wolf. One of the modern worlds greatest problems, is constantly reminding everyone of the worlds greatest problems, not to mention keeping...read more

by Tiffany Coley

To determine if the upcoming generation can be characterized by complacency we must first define the word complacent. To be complacent denotes a state of unbothered satisfaction, which sounds benign enough. Yet there is a...read more

by Johan Dahlberg

Modern society, with a fast development of technology, modernized ways of raising our children and, above all, rapidly expanding global communication, is taking us in new directions. These new directions are appreciated by...read more

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by Quin Scrantz

I rather choose cynical apathy over optimistic complacence, but frankly, I probably don't have a choice. I wake up every morning and inhale one my venomous, beloved Marlboro Reds, my "cowboy killers," into my lungs befo...read more

by ZaZa Sa'Oud

According to The Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary,the word complacent means: 1. smugly self-satisfied 2. calmly content. My initial answer to the question posed in the theme of this essay is -no, we are not crea...read more

by Genine Hopkins

"Me and all my friends We're all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing There's no way we ever could... ...so we're waiting for the world to change." John Mayer, "Waiting for the World to Change." Hmmm. I...read more