The phycology of humans is not really much more evolved than our primitive ancestors. This is our primary flaw in the ointment understanding generational behavior trends. Because the attempted shift to post modernity (modernity beginning in seventeenth century when bureaucratic governance came into fashion) has been a hockey-stick graph …
The phycology of humans is not really much more evolved than our primitive ancestors. This is our primary flaw in the ointment understanding generational behavior trends. Because the attempted shift to post modernity (modernity beginning in seventeenth century when bureaucratic governance came into fashion) has been a hockey-stick graph that rocketed up, not because evolutionary human psychology jumped, but because technological advancement exploded exponentially.
So, what we see with the younger generations that have only known a life with all the technological wonder (click a few buttons on your phone and dinner is delivered in 30 minutes to your over-priced apartment). They are missing the real tangible mental and physical struggles that build a full-functioning human animal. Now, they will rage if you suggest this because they are sure they are struggling in this life. But what they don't recognize is the irony of what is an emotional and psychological struggle due to the missing real life struggles that technology and helicopter parents prevented them from experiencing. They feel the gap but cannot understand it.
To reach their full potential humans need a balance of struggles and achievement that puts constant tension on them without devolving to debilitating stress. However, the ability to cope grows with struggle and achievement.
Well-run business leadership knows this. To get peak performance from their valuable employees they need a constant and steady stream of challenging work... but not so much it breaks the confidence and motivation of the workers because they hit a wall of stress.
We need to counter-act the mistakes of parents and the negative impacts of technology by changing up our public education system to inject real life struggle. For example, the kids should all get free breakfast and lunch, but they need to work in the kitchen and cafeteria. They need to work with the janitor. They need to grow much of the food that they eat by tending gardens on school grounds. They need to learn how to balance their bank checkbook, and how to file their annual tax return. They need to get an hour of physical exercise each day. There needs to be more electives that require physical work like wood shop and metal shop and auto shop.
The kids are not broken, they are under-developed. They have been placed high on the ladder of human psychological needs having never climbed. They don't recognize nor appreciate the importance of what they missed, but it eats at them nonetheless.
The thing is... they are brilliant with their command of technology. Any country that wants to dominate the future and have a population that reports high levels of happiness needs to fill that gap of missing struggle the kids are plagued with.
They are, through no fault of their own, deprived of deprivation. They have not been taught how different their existence is from the first 99% of humanity’s existence, and have no idea how extraordinarily fortunate they are to live here and now.
The phycology of humans is not really much more evolved than our primitive ancestors. This is our primary flaw in the ointment understanding generational behavior trends. Because the attempted shift to post modernity (modernity beginning in seventeenth century when bureaucratic governance came into fashion) has been a hockey-stick graph that rocketed up, not because evolutionary human psychology jumped, but because technological advancement exploded exponentially.
So, what we see with the younger generations that have only known a life with all the technological wonder (click a few buttons on your phone and dinner is delivered in 30 minutes to your over-priced apartment). They are missing the real tangible mental and physical struggles that build a full-functioning human animal. Now, they will rage if you suggest this because they are sure they are struggling in this life. But what they don't recognize is the irony of what is an emotional and psychological struggle due to the missing real life struggles that technology and helicopter parents prevented them from experiencing. They feel the gap but cannot understand it.
To reach their full potential humans need a balance of struggles and achievement that puts constant tension on them without devolving to debilitating stress. However, the ability to cope grows with struggle and achievement.
Well-run business leadership knows this. To get peak performance from their valuable employees they need a constant and steady stream of challenging work... but not so much it breaks the confidence and motivation of the workers because they hit a wall of stress.
We need to counter-act the mistakes of parents and the negative impacts of technology by changing up our public education system to inject real life struggle. For example, the kids should all get free breakfast and lunch, but they need to work in the kitchen and cafeteria. They need to work with the janitor. They need to grow much of the food that they eat by tending gardens on school grounds. They need to learn how to balance their bank checkbook, and how to file their annual tax return. They need to get an hour of physical exercise each day. There needs to be more electives that require physical work like wood shop and metal shop and auto shop.
The kids are not broken, they are under-developed. They have been placed high on the ladder of human psychological needs having never climbed. They don't recognize nor appreciate the importance of what they missed, but it eats at them nonetheless.
The thing is... they are brilliant with their command of technology. Any country that wants to dominate the future and have a population that reports high levels of happiness needs to fill that gap of missing struggle the kids are plagued with.
They are, through no fault of their own, deprived of deprivation. They have not been taught how different their existence is from the first 99% of humanity’s existence, and have no idea how extraordinarily fortunate they are to live here and now.