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So many people here want to say, "That's not it, it's {something else}." Might be more fruitful to argue about a stack-rank of the things. But, as the father
by browningstreet 4y ago
So many people here want to say, "That's not it, it's {something else}."
Might be more fruitful to argue about a stack-rank of the things.
But, as the father of a son who is a freshman in college at a Research 1 university, I'll say that his college experience so closely mirrors my enterprise organization work bullshit experience it's shocking. And he doesn't have a social media account or a mobile phone.
So, my humble counter is: it's all of it. We've entered a peak bullshit culture moment in time. We throw a million negative and spurious cultural and professional expectations at young people and then couple that with the death of a reasonable middle class end-game, and then are shocked that so many of them, and the rest of us, are angry and unhealthy and impoverished in various "whole person" ways.
(Not to mention climate change...)
- lotsofpulp 4y agoYou have an 18 year old son without a mobile phone? I would think it is at least needed for all the logins requiring SMS 2FA.
- browningstreet 4y agoYes. They gave him an iPad, but none of their systems use SSO of any kind. He doesn't really care for the iPad, doesn't have a mobile phone, and doesn't do social. He does do Minecraft, KSP, and Davinci Resolve.
- barking_biscuit 4y agoWell then it must be Minecraft.
- officeplant 4y agoI would assume at that point he's on other platforms like Discord/Telegram instead of the usual social networks. Or has a cheap prepaid plan and smart phone the parents will never know about.
- strangattractor 4y agoIMHO peak BS is yet to come. Humans want to believe there is only one problem responsible for complex outcomes. Life seems simpler and understandable. Solutions consist of doing this or stopping that. The reality is much more complex and potential solutions always have consequences in addition to the ones desired. For me it always comes back to population. The population of the US (and planet) have more than doubled during my life time. Out psychological and social infrastructure that worked well for smaller groups of people has not scaled well.