"That's how it is, live with it" is likely a sentiment we inherited from Silent/Boomer parents, the ones who went to war and went to work because that's what you do when you have to. We saw them work all the time and inherited that view of a work ethic. Gen Z have been raised hearing their teachers tell them they can "change the world," …
"That's how it is, live with it" is likely a sentiment we inherited from Silent/Boomer parents, the ones who went to war and went to work because that's what you do when you have to. We saw them work all the time and inherited that view of a work ethic. Gen Z have been raised hearing their teachers tell them they can "change the world," which is just an idiotic platitude which some of these kids take seriously, and then have the cognitive dissonance when they realize it isn't true.
Kids would be far more resilient if they were taught how to thrive within in it, and not constantly think it needs changing. Because the world, fundamentally, doesn’t change. People change. Laws change. Perspective changes. But the best we can hope to create ourselves is minor improvement.
My wife and I were just talking about how the 'you can be anything' idea sold to us Millenials was bullshit. I think it's a similar vein. Things can change but I like to follow Chesterton's Fence and make them better, not just destroy things.
"That's how it is, live with it" is likely a sentiment we inherited from Silent/Boomer parents, the ones who went to war and went to work because that's what you do when you have to. We saw them work all the time and inherited that view of a work ethic. Gen Z have been raised hearing their teachers tell them they can "change the world," which is just an idiotic platitude which some of these kids take seriously, and then have the cognitive dissonance when they realize it isn't true.
I hope they can change the world. They just have to realize that it happens slowly and it is done en-mass not at an individual level.
Kids would be far more resilient if they were taught how to thrive within in it, and not constantly think it needs changing. Because the world, fundamentally, doesn’t change. People change. Laws change. Perspective changes. But the best we can hope to create ourselves is minor improvement.
My wife and I were just talking about how the 'you can be anything' idea sold to us Millenials was bullshit. I think it's a similar vein. Things can change but I like to follow Chesterton's Fence and make them better, not just destroy things.