Maybe it’s all because the parents of boomers lived through the depression and WW II and never had the luxury of a college education. They went to work at 18 and got married and had kids. So they thought they wanted better for their kids, and sent them off to university so they would have white color jobs. Then these successful boomer…
Maybe it’s all because the parents of boomers lived through the depression and WW II and never had the luxury of a college education. They went to work at 18 and got married and had kids. So they thought they wanted better for their kids, and sent them off to university so they would have white color jobs. Then these successful boomer kids did the same for their kids, except somewhere along the way universities stopped educating and switched to indoctrination and coddling. And they were living through a period of economic properity, so they got the impression things were always this way. When you don’t have to worry about running out of money before the next pay check, you can worry about whether your kids are safe playing at the park. Your kids don’t have to babysit and have a paper route after school to have pocket money. And now? I hate to write this but it seems like tough times are what are needed to retrain the minds of kids.
academia had a bad growth model based on the GI Bill after WW2 that failed by the early 1970s. then 1980s/90s neoliberalism destroyed the bad growth model, and didn't replace it with anything better.
bad economics led to a spiral of endless organizational dysfunction.
My thoughts exactly. Good intentions for sure. But, the economy and our institutions changed. Social media also adds to the pressure of raising ‘perfect’ kids according to the ‘crowd’. Hopefully we can return to the basics that create happy and purposeful lives and a mature populace.
Maybe it’s all because the parents of boomers lived through the depression and WW II and never had the luxury of a college education. They went to work at 18 and got married and had kids. So they thought they wanted better for their kids, and sent them off to university so they would have white color jobs. Then these successful boomer kids did the same for their kids, except somewhere along the way universities stopped educating and switched to indoctrination and coddling. And they were living through a period of economic properity, so they got the impression things were always this way. When you don’t have to worry about running out of money before the next pay check, you can worry about whether your kids are safe playing at the park. Your kids don’t have to babysit and have a paper route after school to have pocket money. And now? I hate to write this but it seems like tough times are what are needed to retrain the minds of kids.
Well we ceded academia to the left and thought "what's the worst that could happen?" Now we know - chaos, lunacy, treason, societal destruction.
academia had a bad growth model based on the GI Bill after WW2 that failed by the early 1970s. then 1980s/90s neoliberalism destroyed the bad growth model, and didn't replace it with anything better.
bad economics led to a spiral of endless organizational dysfunction.
My thoughts exactly. Good intentions for sure. But, the economy and our institutions changed. Social media also adds to the pressure of raising ‘perfect’ kids according to the ‘crowd’. Hopefully we can return to the basics that create happy and purposeful lives and a mature populace.