Obama buddy Van Jones thinks kids are kinda’ like super genius gods who live in a world with little basis to respect their elders. Supergenius? He obviously hasn’t met my kids.
I understand buttering up your audience but this seems downright destructive. With all the troubles facing our kids, this just seems like the wrong message.
HT The Blaze
March 8, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Forgive my being so blunt, but this is the dumbest thing I ever saw.
March 8, 2011 at 6:34 pm
wow- I guess I was a super-genius at a young age because my mom didn't even need to tell me how to milk the goats…nope, never used my foot (?!)
March 8, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Can't help when I watch this but think of the fork-tongued serpent who told the woman in Genesis 3:5 that "you will be like gods" if she would defy God and chomp down on the forbidden fruit.
March 8, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I get a feeling Mr. Jones doesn't have any idea how education really worked since ancient times. He's talking to college students and saying they're really smarter than previous generations? I don't think he's actually met many young people and had discussions with them. Kids that age now aren't geniuses. Kids that age 100 years ago weren't kids, they were adults, adults who maybe couldn't read or write, but who had a lot more practical and moral knowledge than college aged kids today.
March 8, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I agree with Micah, 100%.
March 8, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Yeah, Mr. Jones.. Let's make sure that generation gap stays wide enough for your ideology to slip through. Ridiculous. I always imagined this is the kind of speech Napoleon the pig was giving those puppies behind closed doors in Animal Farm.
March 9, 2011 at 5:54 am
Little did Mr. Jones know, but half his audience was asleep, while the other half were emitting 140-character bursts of flatulence in a recent trend called 'twittering', and all but ignoring his profound address.
March 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Perfect! That's just what the everyone-is-special generation needs: more self-esteem-building, ego-feeding rhetoric!
The less respect they have for older generations, the more ignorant they become… which makes it easier for the evil masterminds of older generations to control them. Those poor, ignorant super-geniuses.
March 14, 2011 at 12:51 am
Having been a teacher since 1974, I can tell you without a doubt that Mr. Jones does not know what he's talking about. The negative change I've seen over three and a half decades in the creativity and survival potential of young people is disturbingly astounding. Even though I'm old, I'm pretty tech-savvy, but all the techonological skill in the world is worthless without the ability to think, and this is compounded by baseless arrogance and self-esteem. I hate to tell you all, but this decline is what I'm seeing more and more and more in young people with each passing year.