My somewhat peculiar life puts me in unusually close contact with a variety of people of different ages and circumstances. And personally, I think that our treatment of young people is probably one of the most destructive things to happen in history. https://twitter.com/3liza/status/1190847339868520448 …
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It combines a refusal to take seriously, honor, and support anything children/ adolescents do as a constructive thing [your hobby is fun, but of course you'll be an office drone someday; aren't you and your boyfriend cute? Of course, he's just a disposable learning experience]...
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...with a social insistence on spending fistful's of young people's time and resources on things with massive long-term consequences that, coincidentally, are useful/convenient to the aged vampires that run the world:
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"Of course you have to go to school; how else will you be a good Prussian citizen? How will you be socialized? School is so good you should take out a six-figure loan to keep doing it. Don't worry: it'll get you a job to not only service your student loan, but the car lease."
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Maybe it's a coincidence that the people I know who avoided this, with homeschooling, ballet lessons, atelier-instead-of-college, are interesting, physically healthy, scrappy, capable of speaking to someone outside their age cohort. Maybe it's all selection bias.
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Maybe eighteen year olds are the best people to socialize eighteen year olds. Maybe it's safer to take the hundred-k loan; everyone else is doing it. Maybe if you fail as an artist, it was unrealistic, unsafe dream, but if you get laid off from MegaCorp, well, it's the Economy
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Maybe I'm just an odd, lucky person [I am]. And I know that there will always be failed artists, and a need for ditchdiggers & toilet cleaners, and plenty of people who just want to Do Their Task and then Drink.
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But I can't help but feel we've built a machine for the creation of Autumn People. It's part of what people are gesturing at with "Ugh, late-stage capitalism", and I'm sympathetic, but personally, I think that's an obfuscation/ misdirection the machine uses to defend itself.
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Replying to @kendrictonn
please define " Autumn People. " - googled, not sure results help
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yeah but see this turns out to be wrong, so it's good to ask
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