I feel pangs of sadness reading articles like this. I’m just about 30 and when I look around at my peer group I see themes of learned helplessness. I see child

I feel pangs of sadness reading articles like this. I’m just about 30 and when I look around at my peer group I see themes of learned helplessness. I see children in adult bodies who whine to compel others to fix their own problems. I see people unwilling to entertain conversation that may challenge their point of view. And parents, well into their old age, seem to be content in keeping this status quo. They acquiesce to the complaining, they solve their children’s problems. And the tools of being self sufficient and goal oriented seem to suffer. If I buy into one of the points of the article- that there are people in China who are in positions of power who are unified, know what they want, know where they are, and thus will figure out to get there- and I think about how my peer group would respond, I get worried. The panacea would be for my generation to become just as tenacious in seeking our own goals. But I just don’t see what transformations would have to happen to make this a reality. P.S. I will continue improving the community of people within arm’s reach. I think that’s all us motivated people can do.