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Originally Posted by mental4astro
There are a few things we need to understand.
If we are not happy with aspects of our youth today, remember that WE created it. WE created their apparent laziness. Not them, US, by not caring more about the way the education system has been taken and NOT voicing our concerns. By creating children who give up their responsibility for their own children to the system. By allowing the creation of the system we have now. And now we whine about how we see the young folk...
I came from a hell hole of a system that made all these mistakes, and it breaks my heart to see the exact same mistakes being done here, and WE are too arrogant to learn from the mistakes of others because WE see ourselves above everyone else. AND we are repeating the same mistakes, horrible mistakes, from not very long ago because from our apathy we allow polies and the media control us through fear and distraction.
It might surprise you that our youth have more balls than we give them credit for. No doubt that there are those who are lazy. EVERY generation has them. Remember those who were too smart for school? There are also those who see a certain futility in doing anything - why when the system is stacked against them. AND there are those who are now totally engrossed in their "Facebook" accounts - but don't forget, WE created this system. Not them. WE did.
And we are in one hell of a crap-hole mess to pull ourselves out from.
But there are those who do have balls, energy and courage, but they lack the leadership to encourage and guide them. To call them "idealists" shows we've been seduced by the system we've created. Who's got the balls among us to lead them?
Military service is not the answer. I do not offer a solution. I only seek to point out what we have done wrong, to see the flower that is before us and to not repeat the same mistakes.
To single out the youth is our mistake. Again. We created them. So why are we whinging?
So, who's got the balls to step up?
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Great post, Alexander. Yes, where do we start? During my schooldays (late 1950s early 1960s), we had too much discipline and a truly barbarous punishment regimen, which included horrendous canings that no child should be subjected to. The more gentle and sensitive among us were really quite traumatized by these exhibitions of what was frequently just a power trip by teachers (who BTW were often returned servicemen) relieving their frustrations and post war angst on their (often) terrified pupils.
But as time went on, the pendulum swung too far in the opposite direction and reasonable discipline was seen as some sort of right wing plot, by the increasingly left wing teachers' unions, goaded on by new guard social revolutionaries, employed in the various State education departments' curriculum development sections.
This was all intentional social engineering, designed to replace the received wisdom of our liberal western social democratic traditions with.....
God knows what!!!