The Death Of An American Generation

Take a good look at these pictures. If you are one of those avid video gamers that lined up at 5am to be the first in line to purchase the new Call of Duty-Black Ops video game, this could be you. Grown men took the day out of work to play this crap. It's is another example at how this generation of Americans has lost touch with reality. It's a fucking video game! Look at yourselves. You have no social life (wacking off to cyber porn does not count as a social life). If you do have a girl friend but she lives 3000 miles from you, you had better be a soldier defending this country's security (for real). Between the cell phones that everyone has their noses stuck in, the video games and the computers, we have created a whole generation of "do nothings". They don't do anything, go anywhere or accomplish anything. They can't interact with real people outside a chat room and have no people skills. I see that on a regular basis. Even the ones that do venture outside their caves can't cope with simple tasks. When their problems can't be fixed on a keyboard they freak out. I had a young man in my shop yesterday with a flat ATV tire. I tried to explain to him that a side wall tear, near the bead ,means the tire can not be repaired. The only option other then replace the tire, was to run a tube in it. He looked at me like i was speaking Latin. He said he had to go home and google it. Apparently young people can't understand a guy with over 40 years of motorcycling experience knows what he is talking about. They need almighty Googles input and guidance.

Hail Google, The geeks of the world praise you. There was a time when young men wanted mini bikes or dirtbikes. They learned to work with their hands and fix them up. It taught them skills that would come in handy later in life. Weather you were keeping a car running or fixing a broken washing machine. Going off and riding them taught them other skills. Like interacting with other people. It developed their independent sense of adventure. Wanting to know what was over the next hill, or where that trail led made then curious about the world. Clapped out, old dirt bikes led to street bikes or cars and that led to meeting girls and going off on their own and starting a family. We are in serious trouble in this country. This (pictured) is what we are cultivating. Lazy, fat slobs lacking any values. Unhealthy, drug dependant, and easily taken advantage of young people with no grasp of what its like to work for a living. This is a scary thought.

Well "Gamers" this weekend I'll be off riding my real motorcycle, with my real wife. Out on the real back roads of the real New England. I'll stop for a healthy lunch that i pay for with real money i earned while working with my hands. Then I'll go home and make love to a beautiful woman (actual flesh and blood). I will  experienced life the way it was meant to.