Fragile future

[matrixmann]

Pampering of young people needs to stop.
It's no miracle that, when they first get to hear a "No" not until when they're already grown up, that they feel it as a trauma.
Psychically, it even compares to that - because it's something that they're completely not used to in their own world. It smashes their whole view of the world, it's something not supposed to happen. They're completely unable to deal with that.
And that because they haven't gotten used to that life can also defeat their plans - that life even consists more of chronic "No"s than "Yes"s, like the joke "computer says no".
Some even try to avoid the consequences by manipulating the object back into the shape they can deal with, in order to get around the helplessness and the stun that it causes them.

One important question arising from this in a wider view: Is that what you can wish for to be the next generation elite? Some coddled babies that furiously can't get over it to hear someone saying "No" to their plans?
Do you wish for whole generations of people which are traumatized by a simple two-letter word, by a simple circumstance that so often happens in life that you can rather count the times when the opposite of it was the case?
What world do you want to build if the base for it is just as unprepared, unsuitable and unable to deal with life?

Not even to speak of how much that must be a torment even to them, realizing the world totally works different than they got to feel in the first two decades of their lives.
It renders all they learned before as obsolete and they've got to start from scratch to find a general rule in life quickly to somehow get along without a great amount of difficulties.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

It is sort of social engineering. I totally agree that the new generation does not know any rejection and totally unprepared. It is not natural to human nature to be shielded from problems. People need to face problems and know how to solve them and not how to avoid them.

[matrixmann]

I don't know if there really is some coordinated strategy behind at all. It all just looks like a patch-work of differing wishes and wills for differing directions, and like there is no higher goal. Or it maybe is the goal to prevent a higher aim from developing. Let them be whatever freakish they want to be, but let them be stupid and unable to deal with anything or anyone. As long as they don't start to ask questions, they do whatever they are supposed to do.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I agree here. It is a natural process. I don't know if there is any clear intention behind but for sure they grow up idiots who don't know how deal with reality.

[matrixmann]

It's where you end up with this feel-good activism. You know, I have my reasons for putting it into question if this is not corrupted as well by the system in every aspect - if it even has been so from the start. 'Cause that's somehow a cause of a lot of problems these days - people, in their basic character as humans, are not what these activists in their enthusiasm try to make believe.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Damn, just wrote a long comment and it disappeared somewhere. Anyway, just wanted to say that I agree about activism. People do things that do not change anything except make them feel good. Like,ok, I've done my part and I feel proud of myself.

[matrixmann]

"All lacking ambition" is what I'd say about that kind of behavior. Well, for sure also a great lot of instinctive lack of education plays a role in this. Saying, I'm dumb about a lot of things too how the world works, but at least I seem to get the basic concepts and I carry no illusion around with me how much the world wants to do me good. I hold the deep conviction that the world doesn't want to do good to me and so I need to keep my eyes open, including so I have some image inside my mind which of all aspects gathered together the world could want to mistreat and fool me.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I think the trust that some people have is a part of comfort. People until they face real problems prefer to hide and think they don't exist because of personal comfort.

[matrixmann]

It would be a normal human reaction pattern.
But... you see, in that point, I can't understand it. In that, I'm rather the type "long for the stars, don't be content just with bits" 'cause I understand, in politics and war, this is an attitude you never win anything with. You've got to be stubborn like a capitalistic businessman and negotiate like a shark can be lethal in nature. Otherwise you'll always get robbed of the things you want to see in practice. Nobody's gonna give them to you voluntarily.