Encourage empathy and community wherever you are, especially among young children. Strongly condemn fascism wherever you are able.
This is like paper straws…
Sure it’ll help.
But the real problem is ~30 years ago No Child Left Behind strip everything that wasn’t STEM out of public schools and focused on standardized testing.
Schools are what are supposed to socialize the next generation into well adjusted adults. But we’ve stopped doing that for so long people can’t even connect that to why there’s “suddenly” a bunch of angry young adults who can’t do critical thinking or empathize with others…
Just like ke climate change there’s no switch to flip and fix it immediately. Prior generations took a long time off, and it’ll take a long time to fix.
They don’t even teach money management or personal finance. When I was in school the HomeEc teacher taught everybody how to at least balance a budget, along with cooking and sewing. I remember being annoyed that they didn’t go into any kind of investment management.
If something didn’t generate capital, it got cut out of schools.
50 years ago the highest tech you got was maybe a typing course for a semester.
Think of how much we need to teach a kid today compared to 1975, the solution has always been lengthening public free education, but instead we chopped out everything that took kids (all kids are psychopaths) and spit out adults who could function and cooperate in their society.
The worst part is fixing it is like planting a shade tree. 20 years from now we’ll have them, but there’s always going to be the gap where some areas don’t have mature trees.
We created another MAGA, even if we pull them left, the normal effects of aging will turn them into ahitheads again when they’re 65+
My thoughts are that once Trump picks a fight in some backwater country and starts a war and hits these same angry young men with a draft, you’ll likely see a lot of them changing their tune.
School is one thing, but the culture of the last 30 years has been decidedly tilted towards being cautious and wary of risk.
Right now, they think it’s cool to be tough and callous about life and since most of the men that actually fought fascism are now dead, this is when generational amnesia takes over. It was inevitable we’d swing in this direction.
How far it goes before the hot young things see the actual costs of this political viewpoint - and start paying it themselves, is the question of the day…
This is like paper straws…
Sure it’ll help.
But the real problem is ~30 years ago No Child Left Behind strip everything that wasn’t STEM out of public schools and focused on standardized testing.
Schools are what are supposed to socialize the next generation into well adjusted adults. But we’ve stopped doing that for so long people can’t even connect that to why there’s “suddenly” a bunch of angry young adults who can’t do critical thinking or empathize with others…
Just like ke climate change there’s no switch to flip and fix it immediately. Prior generations took a long time off, and it’ll take a long time to fix.
They don’t even teach money management or personal finance. When I was in school the HomeEc teacher taught everybody how to at least balance a budget, along with cooking and sewing. I remember being annoyed that they didn’t go into any kind of investment management.
Almost 4 decades later and kids get none of that.
I relate to this way too much. Spot on
It’s all the hyper focus on capitalism…
If something didn’t generate capital, it got cut out of schools.
50 years ago the highest tech you got was maybe a typing course for a semester.
Think of how much we need to teach a kid today compared to 1975, the solution has always been lengthening public free education, but instead we chopped out everything that took kids (all kids are psychopaths) and spit out adults who could function and cooperate in their society.
The worst part is fixing it is like planting a shade tree. 20 years from now we’ll have them, but there’s always going to be the gap where some areas don’t have mature trees.
We created another MAGA, even if we pull them left, the normal effects of aging will turn them into ahitheads again when they’re 65+
Hmmm.
My thoughts are that once Trump picks a fight in some backwater country and starts a war and hits these same angry young men with a draft, you’ll likely see a lot of them changing their tune.
School is one thing, but the culture of the last 30 years has been decidedly tilted towards being cautious and wary of risk.
Right now, they think it’s cool to be tough and callous about life and since most of the men that actually fought fascism are now dead, this is when generational amnesia takes over. It was inevitable we’d swing in this direction.
How far it goes before the hot young things see the actual costs of this political viewpoint - and start paying it themselves, is the question of the day…
There won’t ever be a draft unless it’s a real war with China or equivalent. The US won Iraq without a draft.
I’m not sanguine qbout that. Young men are still required to register with Selective Service to this day
When that requirement for is gone, I’ll believe that a draft isn’t a possiblility.