“When everyone is treated as a special snowflake who gets a trophy just for showing up, and bad behavior is tolerated, kids come to believe that hard work is for chumps. That’s a very short-sighted way to look at things, but adults who expect heavy long-term strategic thinking from children are practicing their own form of applied stupidity.”
I believe the tide turned about 1980 or so and here we are today. A loaded paragraph depicting all of the subtle dysfunction that passes for everyday life in the USA.
Life in America is certainly different from when I entered the job market after serving in the U. S. Army, and going to college and graduate school and getting married.
We raised a family, but it was much easier in those days decades ago. When I see what’s happening to American society today it’s as though I was living on a completely different planet and seeing things through a glass darkly.
Stupidity is the order of today. Dumbing down and showing no concern for the deterioration of society. There is no art; the music and what passes for art is so much filth and garbage.
Sports used to be played by decent, honorable men. Today they’re louts who are tattooed, pierced, with long dreadlocks flowing and who stuff millions into their pockets to be as wasted as they are on narcotics and ‘hos.
The government is now corrupted beyond repair and is truly a central socialist regime. The states are as bad as both tax anything that moves. Many taxes are deliberately buried by the evil professional politicians who belong in a prison or a work compound.
The worm will turn and when it does it won’t be a pretty sight. There may be a payback day in the near future and those who have slurped at the public trough won’t have to wait until judgment day to get their punishment.
Why, I disagree sir. I’ve got a song on my MP3 player by John Denver where good old John tells us we should “seek the wisdom of the children.” Liberals know about these sorts of things. We should be asking children how to solve problems of great importance. (snicker)