Cracked.com has From N00B to Nerd: The 4 Stages of Life on the Internet. The article includes the 4 stages of real life, and 2 of them really stood out.
From the teenage years:
Modern media teaches the lesson that everyone is a beautiful and unique snowflake deserving of love and attention. Unfortunately, this lesson uses up the majority of the classtime previously used for “spelling,”"self respect” and “How even a beautiful unique snowflake should sit down and shut up sometimes.”
It’s not that teenagers can’t develop skills or talents; it’s just that, thanks to shows like American Idol and Survivor, most American teenagers aren’t aware there ARE such things as skill or talent. Their sole yardstick for measuring success is composed of “idiots” and “idiots who got famous.”
And old age:
Real old people always claim things were better in their day, which of course is a lie. Human society used to consist of eating dung in a cave and now contains video games and mini-beef-burger pizzas, with an unbroken chain of improvements in between. When they say “Things were better in the old days,” they really mean “Things were better for us, personally, when we weren’t so ridiculously old, and all you idiots weren’t here being young at us.”
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