OH MAN I WONDER WHERE THEY LEARNED THAT FROM
Maybe the generation before them had a nasty habit of pathologizing every little imperfection they had so they could get out of doing stuff too! Wow, that’s amazing! Those two things might just be related!
It’s just people pathologizing their stupid quirks and dysfunctions so they don’t have to work on them and improve them.
Much easier to just watch more Rick and Morty and play more fucking Switch.
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@fishsticks @Owl @PraxisOfEvil teens want something to be wrong with them because they think it makes them quirky, and then it becomes an actual problem for them. i have seen so many fucking people get actually depressed because they made depression their aesthetic.
my roommate's sister was actually upset that nothing was weird with her and so she was self-diagnosing herself with all sorts of shit, and even told him that she wished she had his physical deformity. that's pretty fucked up.
The trend for me seems to be completely private quality education for those that can afford it and everyone else just being warehoused in a giant govt depot.
You have to discriminate if you’re going to be productive at all.
no child left behind
One of the worst things that happened to the American education system, the first being racial integration.
Universities should be for STEM and maybe a few other majors only. The amount of useless crap you can get a degree in needs to be massively culled. Most careers that require a degree should really just be a certification IMO.
Universities should be for STEM
That’s what I went out for. Hard science. The educational system won’t be culled because it’s inherently predatory at this point and, oddly for places where you’re supposed to go there to learn, prey on the stupid who make bad decisions by returning the favor with a useless degree.
Let me reiterate the point by saying the following to would-be readers: Unless you are going to school for science, technology, engineering or mathematics you are wasting your time and are making a decision that will ultimately financially cripple you.
@Owl @Corfiot @fishsticks @PraxisOfEvil @RetardedServantOfChrist even technology, depending on the field, is better suited for a trade school instead of a traditional university.
Yes. You can't set goals without discriminating. Discrimination means telling one thing from another and is not a bad word. Even if your goal is "to not discriminate", you're still discriminating on what you are targeting as discrimination. You can't be of a certain race without discriminating between the races - by dint of needing a definition of what your race is as opposed to the other ones.
This feels like asking a child if they know right from wrong, left from right and up from down. We're regressing to toddler-age mental development if we have to actually explain this to people, yet we do.
Woke is arrested development
Kids these days find validation not in strength, but in deformity.
We taught them that. Of course this is what happens when you make a society hate concepts like strength and meritocracy, people will find ways to game the system through weakness instead.
@Owl @fishsticks @PraxisOfEvil I find it ridiculous because I'm like, actually pretty fucked up but I've still tried my best to not make excuses for myself whenever possible. Kids are taught that being different makes you special and so they fight to see who can be the most different so that they can be special. The snowflake thing, you know.
I honestly don't know how I turned out the way I did with all of that shit that was shoved down my throat. Maybe I got fed too much and puked it all up.
When you're a kid/teenager the future is this amorphous blob you can't think clearly about. People around you usually do not help: "you can do/be whatever you wish". This fucks up teens so bad (kids too). No, you can't be anything you want, there are things you're good at and things you're not good at. And there are things you just can't be good at no matter how hard you try, e.g. play the nba at 5' tall or be a space pilot with an IQ of 70. Or be a woman if you're a boy (I make a point not to forget to alienate that crowd in every post).
We should really stop:
a) prettying up the grades so we don't "hurt" kids (and parents)
b) coddling laziness disguised as mental or physical illness
c) rewarding participation without effort - downplaying success
d) overloading them with activities - taking their childhood away
e) burdening them with ADULT things (like politics and ideologies)
f) making them feel ashamed for things they can't change (skin color, temperament, height, etc)
g) ignoring their need to be accepted by their peers (not their parents), which is #1 in their brain well into ages 17-18