{"id":7823,"date":"2010-08-19T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:49:36","slug":"brian-college-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2034","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/brian-college-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2034\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian College Mindset List for the Class of 2034"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beloit College came up with its annual Mindset List that reminds us old people the limit of 18-year-olds&#8217; experience.  As I previously said, I think this year&#8217;s list is full of <a>trivia and little else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought, hey, the elected leadership in Washington is glibly fundamentally transforming the country.  So what might the Brian College Mindset List for the Class of 2034 look like?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year\u2019s freshmen have never eaten ice cream since the FDA added it to the banned foods list.<\/li>\n<li>The class of 2030 have never flown on a plane since commercial flights were banned due to their carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t remember the rumble of a V-8 engine.  Few remember the sound of an internal combustion engine at all.<\/li>\n<li>They have never seen a political ad or an actual political candidate; the National Parliament has always been dissolved and His Excellency has always ruled.<\/li>\n<li>Keyboards have always had nine keys, and touch-typing always relied solely on thumbs.<\/li>\n<li>They have never burned their hands on an incandescent lightbulb.  As a matter of fact, they&#8217;ve never seen one.<\/li>\n<li>Cars have always had ORedStar installed and mandated, with its velocity capping, roadside assistance, remote unlock, and remote disable service from the Vehicle Maintenance and Safety Administration (VMSA).<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t know anyone taking a student loan nor do they know what tenure meant.<\/li>\n<li>The government has always monitored all audio and video conversations for public safety.<\/li>\n<li>This year&#8217;s students have never bought a new paper-based book or newspaper.<\/li>\n<li>They have never pumped gas.<\/li>\n<li>If employed, they have never received a paycheck from an employer; they have only gotten the Government Income Allotment from the Department of Employment and Productivity.<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s students have always enjoyed mandatory FM radio broadcasts on their imPhones.<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t remember a time when four corporations owned all channels on television.<\/li>\n<li>The National Wildlife Preserve System has always been closed to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloit College came up with its annual Mindset List that reminds us old people the limit of 18-year-olds&#8217; experience. As I previously said, I think this year&#8217;s list is full of trivia and little else. Then I thought, hey, the elected leadership in Washington is glibly fundamentally transforming the country. So what might the Brian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}