So sick, so tired

I am just so sick, and so tired of ignorance! Not sure if it's a false sense of entitlement, pure laziness or what. At first I thought it was only us Americans and our Walmart Mentality, but this seems to be a world wide epidemic!

Perhaps it's because I'm from another generation. We were not allowed to use calculators in math class. I took the SAT without one, and survived 400 level Calculus and Statical Analysis classes in college without one. There was no Google, or wikipedia for us to consult while writing our papers. We actually had to use our brains.

A few weeks ago I was helping my 11 year old nephew with some middle school math. Very basic algebraic graphing. He could not grasp the idea of doing the work with out his graphing calculator. Had no idea how to plot x/y cords on graphing paper, nothing. But he did know how to punch numbers in a machine, and let it do the work.

It's not just him, his school mates, or their teachers. I see this everyday, everywhere. People that work with money everyday have no clue how to make change without a machine computing simple arithmatic for them. God forbid there's a power failure, everything would grind to a halt because people either do not know, or forget how to break out a pad and pencil. I'm not even going to touch on them attempting to figure out how much change a $20 bill gets from a $15.90 purchase. Wonder how well they would do when the batteries die in the remote? Actually be able to cook a meal with a microwave? Would they be able to walk to the store if the car would not start? Balance their check book without internet access? I doubt it.

Then there's these forums. Some people seem to believe we are psychic.
Can't play music files
Ummm, OK. What kind of music files? On what OS? With what application? Did you try another music file? Did you try another application? Do other sounds work? I mean seriously come on. People like this need to just pack up their computer and ship it back.

Or -
I have problem A. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Sure, I've had problem A, and fixed it / worked around it by doing B.
Why would I want to do B? It should just work. I'm not going to try B because I think you are wrong, I don't won't to do it, a Google search did not turn up your answer
If you're so flipping smart, and already know, why did you bother to ask for help? Why did you ask for a suggestion, and ignore a perfectly valid solution? What, do you need me to come to your place and walk you through "This is the power button, you turn on the PC by pressing this button in."

I think it started going down hill with this whole politically correct mentality. You're not fat, you're just big boned. You're not dumb, you're special. You're not ugly, you're beautiful in my eyes.
W. T. F. ever.

You are fat, put down the damn twinky and go for a jog.

You are dumb, could be border line retarded. You might seriously think about learning a good solid trade. You'll be really happy, make a fantastic living, and people will better appreciate you. When you succeed your self esteem will sky rocket. This is better than being put into a highly demanding job which you are under qualified for because of this PC bull crap, being hated by your co-workers, and customers because you ain't got a clue. Forget college, you don't deserve my tax dollars to help you get through remedial math, and under water basket weaving.

You are ugly. Make-up and plastic surgery may help, but don't get your hopes up. Sometimes you need to learn that - You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need.

Then there's the group that want everything, right now, perfect, for free, without any effort put forth at all. Seriously people. No one owes you anything! Get up off your lazy ass and do it yourself.

One that really gets on my nerves are those that equate free and open source software to automatically mean no money should change hands. Yeah, I'd like to see these people do a single days work off the clock. Let's not forget those that feel entitled (there's that word again) because they donated $0.30, and seem to think they own your ass.