Dear Teacher,everything is screwed, we are aiming low, and have no fucks left to give. While not a student of CS, I have had a number of rather strange convers

Dear Teacher,everything is screwed, we are aiming low, and have no fucks left to give. While not a student of CS, I have had a number of rather strange conversations with current students, who have clearly and articulately, expressed there life plan as aiming just low of the middle, safe, low stress, jobby job, coming from clearly intelligent and capable people, who are not malcontents or missfits, or any kind of counter culture,, rebels, but are calmly (too calmly?) giving up without ANY fight, fighting for invisibility, grabbing for the biege pill