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It’s getting to the point where we need to intentionally design people’s young lives to include some actual strife to reset their suffering metric so that someo
by colechristensen 4y ago
It’s getting to the point where we need to intentionally design people’s young lives to include some actual strife to reset their suffering metric so that someone being slightly unkind stops being treated like battery.
In other words the whole “right of passage” where you’d dump a young teenager in the woods with a knife and a fishing pole and tell them “good luck” needs a modern equivalent.
Human beings seem to have a sort of suffering constant where it doesn’t matter how awful or easy your life is, you find about the same amount to suffer from regardless if you’re a billionaire or an orphan foraging in a garbage dump. People with really comfortable lives are finding troubling things to suffer from and it needs to be addressed and soon.
- slackfan 4y agoI didn't realize that knives and fishing poles and access to the woods were things that were unavailable to the general public.
- malandrew 4y agoI’ve been saying that we need some sort of walkabout for while now. Turning 18 is a terrible proxy for adulthood, especially in a world where we continue to infantilize and arrest the development of young folks by further sheltering them. We need a better proxy for maturity to do things like vote than just how many years you’ve existed.