First, I love your podcast and have listened to literally every episode. Im really glad there is a way for listeners to comment on those episodes and interact with them. I really liked this episode and its definitely not the first time Ive bought a book after listening to the podcast. I just wanted to offer a thought on the question o…
First, I love your podcast and have listened to literally every episode. Im really glad there is a way for listeners to comment on those episodes and interact with them. I really liked this episode and its definitely not the first time Ive bought a book after listening to the podcast. I just wanted to offer a thought on the question of why bars were open when schools werent and how a society could possibly allow or argue for that. My take is that it makes perfect sense when you consider the characteristics of Millennials and whatever that next generation of young adults is called. We live in an incredibly entitled and self-centered society and those are the two primary characteristics of these younger generations of adults. This is a result of the parenting styles of Gen X (everyone gets an award, helicopter parents, no suffering, etc) as well as of the effects of social media which is almost entirely about self-glorification. In your last podcast with David Sedaris, he makes a point about people going to art museums and taking selfies in front of the art, thereby placing themselves at the forefront and the art becomes secondary. I think that really speaks volumes to how these generations view the world and their place in it. For all of the talk of equity and whatnot, most of the energy and action is purely performative, again placing the "cause" in the background and themselves at the center. When considered from that standpoint, it makes perfect sense that these adults would prioritize their ability to blow off steam or whatever over the interests of children. You combine that with the plummeting birth and marriage rates and you have adults who are entitled and self-centered, many of whom have no idea of the sacrifice required to make relationships work in the long term and who have no kids, and it just sort of becomes the logical conclusion. We keep kids home to signal how altruistic we are and bars open so we still get what we need to maintain sanity. Its all about self-glorification and self-interest. A society that does not value or teach the value of self-sacrifice and instead promotes celebrity style self-indulgence is going to do a lot of pretty immoral things. Anyhow, thats just my take on it. Again, love the podcast (and really everything you all are doing here!)
First, I love your podcast and have listened to literally every episode. Im really glad there is a way for listeners to comment on those episodes and interact with them. I really liked this episode and its definitely not the first time Ive bought a book after listening to the podcast. I just wanted to offer a thought on the question of why bars were open when schools werent and how a society could possibly allow or argue for that. My take is that it makes perfect sense when you consider the characteristics of Millennials and whatever that next generation of young adults is called. We live in an incredibly entitled and self-centered society and those are the two primary characteristics of these younger generations of adults. This is a result of the parenting styles of Gen X (everyone gets an award, helicopter parents, no suffering, etc) as well as of the effects of social media which is almost entirely about self-glorification. In your last podcast with David Sedaris, he makes a point about people going to art museums and taking selfies in front of the art, thereby placing themselves at the forefront and the art becomes secondary. I think that really speaks volumes to how these generations view the world and their place in it. For all of the talk of equity and whatnot, most of the energy and action is purely performative, again placing the "cause" in the background and themselves at the center. When considered from that standpoint, it makes perfect sense that these adults would prioritize their ability to blow off steam or whatever over the interests of children. You combine that with the plummeting birth and marriage rates and you have adults who are entitled and self-centered, many of whom have no idea of the sacrifice required to make relationships work in the long term and who have no kids, and it just sort of becomes the logical conclusion. We keep kids home to signal how altruistic we are and bars open so we still get what we need to maintain sanity. Its all about self-glorification and self-interest. A society that does not value or teach the value of self-sacrifice and instead promotes celebrity style self-indulgence is going to do a lot of pretty immoral things. Anyhow, thats just my take on it. Again, love the podcast (and really everything you all are doing here!)