| > Maybe, just maybe, the previous generation (I include myself here) have lost the plot raising/educating children and are breeding just absolute disrespectful, egotistical, attention seeking assholes as younger generations. > ... > That kind of value based education where parents used to educate kids to be compassionate to each other, to respect each other and to f*ng understand that if a moment of fun with some friends could ruin someone else's life maybe it is not worth being the cool dude for 5 minutes. We have lost that. Most kids do not have these values these days. > ... > I don't think tech is to blame. I don't think kids are to blame. This might be our fault. I don't think just one thing is to blame, and it's a fool's errand to try to pin it on one thing. But here's a cause I think you missed: corporate capitalism, and the rise of dual-income families. Before you blame the parents, realize they're probably working for "the man" instead of being around their kids when teachable moments happen. The kids spend most of their days from infancy to adulthood in some kind of institutional setting (daycare to school) with the legal minimum adult-to-child ratio (business is business!), and the family all comes together exhausted at the ass-end of the day. We're in the second or third generation of that. This situation is good for business. You take a working solution, and split it into two problems that business can make money "solving": business gets more of the parents labor, and more of their money because they have to pay for childcare while they work. Part of the story of the last 40+ years is business cannibalizing society (families, community, civil society) for private gains. And they protect their gains because the social problems are somewhat multi-factoral, so they can always pay for propaganda and redirect the blame away from themselves. There's a reason why "blame the parents, make them fix it" is so tempting and "blame business, make them fix it" is taboo. |