This is biased - as a young person I'm not worried about DEI, climate change, wokeism.
I'm worried about the increasing unaffordability to buy a house. The only reason I couldn't buy a house is because i am a few years younger than my peers who were able to buy before Covid.
I'm worried about not being able to pay for college for my kids.
I'm worried about the increasing lack of careers for people not interested in a certain narrow subset of fields (tech, finance, trades). For people interested in the humanities, social sciences, and arts there way to make a viable living is increasingly decreasing unless they come from a wealthy background.
John, with all due respect, I suggest your view might be somewhat myopic and informed by others who feel the same way, vs those who are buying homes and moving on. I put to you that you will find a way to buy a house, and have nice things. I've mentored so many young students just out of college, working on my teams, and all of them move on to bigger and better. My own two sons, neither with a college degree even, bought homes in their 20's that were better than I had till I was in my 40s.
You will solve that problem if you want to. There are homes, and if you are a serious person, you will set yourself up to buy one. Maybe not where you want, with the same geo, same features as you want, but your first house doesn't have to be your last house either. It's a very solvable problem.
However, on the flip side, you would have no ability, on your own, with research and hard work, to put a stop to 40 hires at a university to promote racial discrimination practices as DEI does. Then multiply that by most universities across the country, and the students that the normalize racist hiring and attitudes to year after year. And then extend that to the journos across the country that carry that same wrong thinking to media voices broadly, and to corporate boards and incentives. See, you can't solve that. That's a BIG problem. That's why it's important.
Read more, and talk with more people who have found ways to grow and achieve, and I am confident you will improve yearly. I've seen too many, from too many backgrounds, do so. As needs in society change, you might have to adjust what you do. All generations have to do that. My parents, theirs, my kids, etc. I wish you well and encourage you to find mentors who believe it can be done. I've offered many people over the years to sit with me once a month and plot a path forward. None that were complainers have taken me up on it, and I think they know their complaints are a bit hollow. More angst than final word on the matter.
In the list of items that today's graduates are so upset about, i.e. Climate change, capitalism, inequality, racism and bigotry, gender-nonconforming and queer people are under unprecedented attack; economic anxiety, Artificial Intelligence... many of these are not even problems at all, and the others are NOT the major problems facing the world today. "Rampant and unprecedented" of levels of bigotry claimed by the mainstream media is all in their heads honestly, and the truly serious problems, like climate change, are being addressed by our scientists in the best way they can. In fact the "unprecedented attack" on trans and queer... well gee, that wasn't even on anyone's radar as a thing to even worry about until 2021 when the Dems decided that that should be a new issue in the world today, and frankly, it is BECAUSE they want to shove it down people's throats that it HAS now indeed become a major issue... at least in the USA and Europe. So now we are being told that can't use pronouns as they have been used since the dawn of time or we'll be called a bigot or even go to jail (Scotland). We have to pretend a guy is a woman??!!! Uhhhh...what??!!!! ... talk about an attack on all the realists out there! Btw, the vast majority of the population is straight. When you start lying and trying to make people conform to your lies (a guy IS NOT a woman even if he'd LIKE to be), then yes, there is massive and unprecedented attacks on the general population.
Thank you...so much here to unpack...to me, the most important thread is the concise explanation of how capitalism works to improve all of our lives...g.
Education drives us to want (perhaps) to have a worldview. It makes for good discussion if nothing else. But when I look at great stories in books, or sitcoms on TV, or in fact my own life, it is those few people who surround that are most important of all. Amor Towles tells a story of a man locked away in a Moscow hotel for decades with a few close people nearby. Magnum PI solves crime in Hawaii with his two best mates from their Vietnam days. Seinfeld, MASH, Cheers makes you laugh with a few people. Yet, for us in our world we want to look beyond to the big picture, which as this essay suggests, can just bring you down. The best of life is in that concentric circle of friends that is closest to you.
Who knew the protesters from the 1960’s would become tenured professors and doggedly pursue their agenda by indoctrinating the grandchildren of their oppressors!
Great - sent it to my kids. All people - especially young people need to hear just this! Go live your life and stop listening to all the sad news. It’s just noise to sell stuff - don’t buy it. Buy something fun, go places, kiss your love, hug you friends and family and enjoy your youth - it will go by fast!
having worked on a college campus I was very much bothered by the pushing of mental health. Not treatment but the idea what one SHOULD have a mental health issue. Nervous about an exam? You definitely suffer from anxiety, take some pill. Feel down or frustrated? Take time off and get treatment for depression. My favorite one was "racial battle fatigue syndrome." I can't explain what the girl told me it was, but a therapist told her she had it so she needed to transfer to an HBCU...which she hated being at and left to return to our super majority white institution.
I have to find a way to save this so I can read it every few months (once a year minimum). I did my best to share it with family and friends, and I hope it brings you new subscribers. Absolutely wonderful!
Western civilization has made great progress and had great results.
This is in part from the western rule of law and religion with its codified rules for individual members which when followed by the group, leads to the common good.
These new progressive pseudo religion preachers are the antithesis of the above.
They are decidedly against the rule of law, meritocracy, the nuclear family, religious conviction......all of which will lead to the reversal of the great advances of the west.
They are not for the improvement of our society, they are in favor of its desecration and destruction.
Essays like the above are a great start to combat the non sensible progressivism that has attempted to infect us with a mind disease worse than the plague!!
This is a superb, honest and straight forward speech that every young person in the nation needs to hear and heed. High school, as well as college graduates, need Robert Parham's wise and practical advice.
This is biased - as a young person I'm not worried about DEI, climate change, wokeism.
I'm worried about the increasing unaffordability to buy a house. The only reason I couldn't buy a house is because i am a few years younger than my peers who were able to buy before Covid.
I'm worried about not being able to pay for college for my kids.
I'm worried about the increasing lack of careers for people not interested in a certain narrow subset of fields (tech, finance, trades). For people interested in the humanities, social sciences, and arts there way to make a viable living is increasingly decreasing unless they come from a wealthy background.
John, with all due respect, I suggest your view might be somewhat myopic and informed by others who feel the same way, vs those who are buying homes and moving on. I put to you that you will find a way to buy a house, and have nice things. I've mentored so many young students just out of college, working on my teams, and all of them move on to bigger and better. My own two sons, neither with a college degree even, bought homes in their 20's that were better than I had till I was in my 40s.
You will solve that problem if you want to. There are homes, and if you are a serious person, you will set yourself up to buy one. Maybe not where you want, with the same geo, same features as you want, but your first house doesn't have to be your last house either. It's a very solvable problem.
However, on the flip side, you would have no ability, on your own, with research and hard work, to put a stop to 40 hires at a university to promote racial discrimination practices as DEI does. Then multiply that by most universities across the country, and the students that the normalize racist hiring and attitudes to year after year. And then extend that to the journos across the country that carry that same wrong thinking to media voices broadly, and to corporate boards and incentives. See, you can't solve that. That's a BIG problem. That's why it's important.
Read more, and talk with more people who have found ways to grow and achieve, and I am confident you will improve yearly. I've seen too many, from too many backgrounds, do so. As needs in society change, you might have to adjust what you do. All generations have to do that. My parents, theirs, my kids, etc. I wish you well and encourage you to find mentors who believe it can be done. I've offered many people over the years to sit with me once a month and plot a path forward. None that were complainers have taken me up on it, and I think they know their complaints are a bit hollow. More angst than final word on the matter.
In the list of items that today's graduates are so upset about, i.e. Climate change, capitalism, inequality, racism and bigotry, gender-nonconforming and queer people are under unprecedented attack; economic anxiety, Artificial Intelligence... many of these are not even problems at all, and the others are NOT the major problems facing the world today. "Rampant and unprecedented" of levels of bigotry claimed by the mainstream media is all in their heads honestly, and the truly serious problems, like climate change, are being addressed by our scientists in the best way they can. In fact the "unprecedented attack" on trans and queer... well gee, that wasn't even on anyone's radar as a thing to even worry about until 2021 when the Dems decided that that should be a new issue in the world today, and frankly, it is BECAUSE they want to shove it down people's throats that it HAS now indeed become a major issue... at least in the USA and Europe. So now we are being told that can't use pronouns as they have been used since the dawn of time or we'll be called a bigot or even go to jail (Scotland). We have to pretend a guy is a woman??!!! Uhhhh...what??!!!! ... talk about an attack on all the realists out there! Btw, the vast majority of the population is straight. When you start lying and trying to make people conform to your lies (a guy IS NOT a woman even if he'd LIKE to be), then yes, there is massive and unprecedented attacks on the general population.
Thank you...so much here to unpack...to me, the most important thread is the concise explanation of how capitalism works to improve all of our lives...g.
Beautiful.
Thanks for the message, or, as they used to say in the old National Review, "may your tribe increase,"
Outstanding
Education drives us to want (perhaps) to have a worldview. It makes for good discussion if nothing else. But when I look at great stories in books, or sitcoms on TV, or in fact my own life, it is those few people who surround that are most important of all. Amor Towles tells a story of a man locked away in a Moscow hotel for decades with a few close people nearby. Magnum PI solves crime in Hawaii with his two best mates from their Vietnam days. Seinfeld, MASH, Cheers makes you laugh with a few people. Yet, for us in our world we want to look beyond to the big picture, which as this essay suggests, can just bring you down. The best of life is in that concentric circle of friends that is closest to you.
Who knew the protesters from the 1960’s would become tenured professors and doggedly pursue their agenda by indoctrinating the grandchildren of their oppressors!
Great - sent it to my kids. All people - especially young people need to hear just this! Go live your life and stop listening to all the sad news. It’s just noise to sell stuff - don’t buy it. Buy something fun, go places, kiss your love, hug you friends and family and enjoy your youth - it will go by fast!
having worked on a college campus I was very much bothered by the pushing of mental health. Not treatment but the idea what one SHOULD have a mental health issue. Nervous about an exam? You definitely suffer from anxiety, take some pill. Feel down or frustrated? Take time off and get treatment for depression. My favorite one was "racial battle fatigue syndrome." I can't explain what the girl told me it was, but a therapist told her she had it so she needed to transfer to an HBCU...which she hated being at and left to return to our super majority white institution.
Yeah
I have to find a way to save this so I can read it every few months (once a year minimum). I did my best to share it with family and friends, and I hope it brings you new subscribers. Absolutely wonderful!
Western civilization has made great progress and had great results.
This is in part from the western rule of law and religion with its codified rules for individual members which when followed by the group, leads to the common good.
These new progressive pseudo religion preachers are the antithesis of the above.
They are decidedly against the rule of law, meritocracy, the nuclear family, religious conviction......all of which will lead to the reversal of the great advances of the west.
They are not for the improvement of our society, they are in favor of its desecration and destruction.
Essays like the above are a great start to combat the non sensible progressivism that has attempted to infect us with a mind disease worse than the plague!!
BRAVO!!
The Charlie Munger quote, along with the rest of this article, is 1000% on target
This is a superb, honest and straight forward speech that every young person in the nation needs to hear and heed. High school, as well as college graduates, need Robert Parham's wise and practical advice.