Comment by coldtea
Comment by coldtea a day ago
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Comment by coldtea a day ago
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Again, I’m not saying “the kids” are wrong or right. I’m just saying that dismissing it with a simple “they’re idiots” is probably reductive.
Because if you’re a naive young kid and you see what’s happening in front of you, what are you supposed to do?
Kids are definitely not stupid. They just are more malleable to picking up the current trendy group-think pushed onto them by the media and education systems, while they just haven't dealt with taxes, labor, housing markets, debt and crushing CoL to bring them to reality yet.
I'm curious what "reality" would deliver them in terms of clarity/truth/policy leanings, and how it differs from whatever they're pushed currently.
If I've learned anything from my 40+ years on this earth it's that there are no guarantees that adults/grownups are more reality-based than late teens, but they are usually more convinced they are.
> If I've learned anything from my 40+ years on this earth it's that there are no guarantees that adults/grownups are more reality-based than late teens, but they are usually more convinced they are.
Yes exactly, we're just seeing the usual tired tropes making the rounds to dismiss this rather than trying to engage with the ideas.
What is the trope being dismissed and what is the idea you feel isn't discussed?
>If I've learned anything from my 40+ years on this earth it's that there are no guarantees that adults/grownups are more reality-based than late teens
You don't think that adult taxpayers with full time careers and mortgages have a higher chance at a better understanding of the state of play, than kids who can't spell their name without asking CHatGPT?
The kids might as well be idiots but they ain’t surrounded by incredible smart and brilliant adults either.
Can you blame them for wanting something different from what they see in front of them?