"We’ve produced millions upon millions of well-credentialed but poorly educated, atomized people who need constant validation through their screens and who recoil from the slightest hint of risk."
🙌 Amen! --- I do believe that everyone should be brought up to have self-esteem, BUT being brought up to believe that YOU are the be all, and end all, of perfection upon the Earth, is WRONG on many, many levels.
Oh, absolutely. The saddest irony of the self esteem movement: they got it backwards. Self esteem is built internally via trying and failing and trying again and gaining competence, not by telling kids how great they are. We've done precisely the opposite!
Yes! Yes, to it all! I have had the great displeasure of watching our once fine country decline from a manufacturer of fine, at least good, products to a horrible culture of, "It's not my job," self-centered laziness. If the coming collapse would bring back some of the resourcefulness and ambition to learning the trades, fixing things, and manufacturing things, I might welcome it. However, with the populace we have now, I'm afraid it would just be the Wild West atmosphere with way more robbery, burglary, and killing.
"We’ve produced millions upon millions of well-credentialed but poorly educated, atomized people who need constant validation through their screens and who recoil from the slightest hint of risk."
Thank the self-esteem movement.
🙌 Amen! --- I do believe that everyone should be brought up to have self-esteem, BUT being brought up to believe that YOU are the be all, and end all, of perfection upon the Earth, is WRONG on many, many levels.
Oh, absolutely. The saddest irony of the self esteem movement: they got it backwards. Self esteem is built internally via trying and failing and trying again and gaining competence, not by telling kids how great they are. We've done precisely the opposite!
Yes! Yes, to it all! I have had the great displeasure of watching our once fine country decline from a manufacturer of fine, at least good, products to a horrible culture of, "It's not my job," self-centered laziness. If the coming collapse would bring back some of the resourcefulness and ambition to learning the trades, fixing things, and manufacturing things, I might welcome it. However, with the populace we have now, I'm afraid it would just be the Wild West atmosphere with way more robbery, burglary, and killing.