Wakeforest22890
Snowpom
It's the classic "if you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole" test for me.
Can you think of any other reason why people might not want to strike up a conversation with youand the perceived weirdos are the 5% actually trying to strike up a conversation.
I feel like the big change was sometime in the mid 90's, where our society essentially began catering to gangsters. So pretty much all of Gen Z has spent their entire lives living in a Gangster's Paradise, and this has had a profound effect on the moral fabric of our country. Most of this generation if asked to list their primary concerns in order would either go with Power and then Money, or Money and then Power. They are consumed by these things every minute or every hour. Come dinner time, they aren't spending time with their families in the kitchen, they're running around in the gig economy driving an Uber or delivering a sandwich and not paying attention or even know what their families are cooking for dinner.I just found a new David Brooks article from the Atlantic titled “How America Got Mean” that really delves deep into the history of moral education in our country, and how as a people we have stopped training ourselves to be good people, and have instead generally just trusted that our human nature as individuals would lead us to become moral adults, but how that has mostly led us to be sad, angry, and self serving. I don’t agree with every point made, but on the whole I think it’s a very worthwhile essay.
For anyone who is immediately disagreeing with the title of the essay, I would like to premise this by saying that America on the whole has always been “mean”, but I think we can all move beyond that general truth to recognize that their has been a definitive structural/philosophical change
Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another — The Atlantic
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.apple.news
you are one educated foolI feel like the big change was sometime in the mid 90's, where our society essentially began catering to gangsters. So pretty much all of Gen Z has spent their entire lives living in a Gangster's Paradise, and this has had a profound effect on the moral fabric of our country. Most of this generation if asked to list their primary concerns in order would either go with Power and then Money, or Money and then Power. They are consumed by these things every minute or every hour. Come dinner time, they aren't spending time with their families in the kitchen, they're running around in the gig economy driving an Uber or delivering a sandwich and not paying attention or even know what their families are cooking for dinner.
I do think this article is spot on, however it doesn't seem to address who is actually going to be there to teach these morals, and further who is going to teach the teachers? Because if they don't understand it, how can they reach the rest of us? Sadly, I suspect they can't learn what it is they need to learn and thus they won't. Therefore, the rest of society is going to be out of luck.
The last time that I checkedFirst you get the Money. Then you get the Power. After you get the Power, people will Respect you. That’s the key to life. You’ll be eating right. You can sleep at night.
Our society catered to gangsters prior to the mid 90sI feel like the big change was sometime in the mid 90's, where our society essentially began catering to gangsters. So pretty much all of Gen Z has spent their entire lives living in a Gangster's Paradise, and this has had a profound effect on the moral fabric of our country. Most of this generation if asked to list their primary concerns in order would either go with Power and then Money, or Money and then Power. They are consumed by these things every minute or every hour. Come dinner time, they aren't spending time with their families in the kitchen, they're running around in the gig economy driving an Uber or delivering a sandwich and not paying attention or even know what their families are cooking for dinner.
I do think this article is spot on, however it doesn't seem to address who is actually going to be there to teach these morals, and further who is going to teach the teachers? Because if they don't understand it, how can they reach the rest of us? Sadly, I suspect they can't learn what it is they need to learn and thus they won't. Therefore, the rest of society is going to be out of luck.
Learned recently, forgot from where, that America was basically founded on puritanical religious freedom to be super conservative and shitty because the Puritans basically got kicked out of England for being too strict and uptight. So that’s our foundation of religious freedom, a bunch of dickheads who didn’t think the 1700’s Church of England was strict enough.White America starting with a bunch of weirdo religious cultists and rapacious capitalists probably wasn't a great foundation if we're being honest.
Obviously, but it's certainly the one that has been carefully chosen and crafted within the civic of religion of America.i mean that's one precursor to religious freedom but I don't think that's the only lineage