Name ONE thing that irritates you about modern culture

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the fact that drugs are thought of as normal annoys me

Telephones. Cellphones. Phones....EVERYWHERE.

Crappy music. Don't get me wrong, there are some good contemporary musicians out there (Avril Lavigne, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Evanescence), but for the most part I'd rather listen to good old classic rock.

I'd struggle to name one thing that doesn't irritate me about modern culture...

My real honest opinion to this matter would be how people in this society claims and support the idea that school is the only way to get a education when thousands of people are suffering at school today (including myself) while there are many other alternatives to the current model of supporting the idea of forcing people to go through school such as homeschooling or unschooling or even a blend of education path like part-schooling and part-unschooling. FYI, I don't refer school teaching and learning process a education, I refer it to the word schooling. My definition of education is basically resources. That's all.

Advertising!
The ever-increasing, almost-inescapable, rudely intrusive commercials-&-commercialism!

Faster, faster... and larger, noisier, more shrill, more and more often and more tightly packed ....
["blip-verts" indeed! <-- w/respectful nod to prescient "Max Headroom"]

TV show creators pompously tell us we have no attention span, often using that as an excuse to make schlock (or to defend it), even as they then interrupt their show every 3 minutes with 5 minutes of ads ....
. Not only do they plaster nearly every nano-speck of space and time with screeching shills, now they abruptly leap right into a show they've spent $$ to advertise (splattering themselves across a third or more of the screen), to advertise their next big thing.

Information-Media ["news"] uses up more and more of its actual news-time ("Give us 22 minutes; we'll give you the world" {oh-yeah; right }) to desperately tell us what they WILL be telling us about ... right after other, endless, mind-numbing ads ....

And now ... nowhere's safe! Spam-texts on my cell phone!

Grrr .....

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Oh. Well, that helped. Yes, it did! Ok, venting is good, thanks for topic!

Loose morals, and people's need to justify them by projecting them on others.

Teenagers.

EDIT: I'm not an old guy, I just can't understand this whole "I'm gonna post every second of my entire life online for everyone to see." kind of mentality. I've literally had younger friends male and female post about their bodily functions on Facebook and their friends "Like" it.

This isn't modern culture, but human culture in general. Survival of the fittest. I used to get made fun of all the time until I got into eighth grade. The first time I had to change in the locker room before and after gym class. People discovered that underneath my baggy clothes, what they had suspected of being fat, were muscles.
It didn't change my social status, but it would be nice if you didn't have to intimidate people to avoid harassment.

the underground squirrel uprising. it's quite bothersome.

I also agree with phones.

Now this is such a nonfeminist thing for me to say as a woman but I used to read a lot of historical fiction and occasionally have wished that I lived in an area where women weren't supposed to be and do everything. Like if you're reading a historical romance novel the heroine is always some quirky girl who likes to read. You'd have to look pretty, have a talent (reading & singing) & be a homemaker (I'm not but when I care about people I do tend to do the caretaker role).