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A society that doesn't support having children won't lead anywhere worth going. I'm pretty sure that given the support they needed, and a society that didn't p
by codr7 2y ago
A society that doesn't support having children won't lead anywhere worth going.
I'm pretty sure that given the support they needed, and a society that didn't program them all the way to want other things in life more; the numbers would look very different.
And that IS the long term problem.
Which is not at all an excuse for not solving other problems, I don't feel it has to be one or the other.
Society very much has, and is, changing; drastically, exponentially.
And in an increasingly destructive direction for quite a while now.
And it will have to change into something more constructive, humane, rational; if it wants to survive at all.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoIndeed, society can fix the system if it so chooses. Otherwise, it must make peace with rational actors making rational decisions in an irrational and dysfunctional system. In my small acts, I am gifting agency and freedom. Society is free to make a better offer (I wish it would), but we know it won't. Prof Scott Galloway asks, "Do we love our children? [1]" I can prove that we don't, beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is clear as day. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_young_people_s_future https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destr...
- silverquiet 2y agoI'm curious how you would prove it? The biggest indictment of humanity to me is our destruction of the biosphere for future generations (and at the rate we're going, a few current generations as well). Is it that or something else?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoI can enumerate the long list of policy that treats youth as a resource to extract from vs supporting and enabling their success. Is that what you had in mind for this?
- silverquiet 2y agoNo need to enumerate the list; I can imagine rather a lot of it, and it probably isn't limited to youth, but they're usually the least able to deal with those who would extract from them. But I still think the largest indictment of humanity is our failure to care for our home. Buckminster Fuller gave us the idea of "Starship Earth"; that we are all the crew of a spaceship that winds through the galaxy and we must all cooperate to maintain it for those that come after. It seems almost certain now that we will not make it.
- codr7 2y agoThen it will be replaced by something more suitable, like many times before. Once you drift too far away from basic human needs and the truth, something will happen, and we're more or less there if you ask me.