Emo / Depression

As a general rule, there is no such thing as "The Good Old Days" or any bygone "Golden Age". Still, it's worth pointing out that schools didn't need metal detectors, and kids weren't shooting each other way back in the 50s and earlier, when parents still beat their kids. A tried and true method of raising children that probably dates back 11,000 years, and it's only recently that we stopped doing that, and look how kids behave now. Just something to think about.

As for depressed people not wanting to do anything of their own volition, again, that's why the parents threaten them with a 2x4 until the emo kids get off their black-eyeshadow-wearing butts and do something productive. That's a consequence of the gross lack of discipline parents enforce these days: they can't actually DO anything to control their kids' behavior.

Take away the emo kid's iPod for a month or two, and he'll start appreciating his cushy middle-class lifestyle.

Jam it back in, in the dark.