When Idiocy Becomes Hardwired

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

Millennials

At this point, virtually all of us over the age of forty have encountered enough “snowflakes” (those Millennials who have a meltdown if anything they say or believe is challenged) to understand that, increasingly, young people are being systemically coddled to the point that they cannot cope with their “reality” being questioned.

The post-war baby boomers were the first “spoiled” generation, with tens of millions of children raised under the concept that, “I don’t want my children to have to experience the hardships that I faced growing up.”

Those jurisdictions that prospered most (the EU, US, Canada, etc.) were, not coincidentally, the ones where this form of childrearing became most prevalent.

The net result was the ’60s generation – young adults who could be praised for their idealism in pursuing the peace movement, the civil rights movement, and equal rights for women. But those same young adults were spoiled to the degree that many felt that it made perfect sense that they should attend expensive colleges but spend much of their study time pursuing sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Flunking out or dropping out was not seen as a major issue and very few of them felt any particular guilt about having squandered their parents’ life savings in the process.

The boomer generation then became the yuppies as they hit middle age, and not surprisingly, many coddled their own children even more than they themselves had been coddled.

As a result of ever-greater indulgence with each new generation of children, tens of millions of Millennials now display the result of parents doing all they can to remove every possible hardship from their children’s experience, no matter how small.

Many in their generation never had to do chores, have a paper route, or get good grades in order to be given an exceptional reward, such as a cell phone. They grew to adulthood without any understanding of cause and effect, effort and reward.

Theoretically, the outcome was to be a generation that was free from troubles, free from stress, who would have only happy thoughts. The trouble with this ideal was that, by the time they reached adulthood, many of the critical life’s lessons had been missing from their upbringing. In the years during which their brains were biologically expanding and developing, they had been hardwired to expect continued indulgence throughout their lives. Any thought that they had was treated as valid, even if it was insupportable in logic.

And, today, we’re witnessing the fruits of this upbringing. Tens of millions of Millennials have never learned the concept of humility. They’re often unable to cope with their thoughts and perceptions being questioned and, in fact, often cannot think outside of themselves to understand the thoughts and perceptions of others.

They tend to be offended extremely easily and, worse, don’t know what to do when this occurs. They have such a high perception of their own self-importance that they can’t cope with being confronted, regardless of the validity of the other person’s reasoning. How they feel is far more important than logic or fact.

Hypersensitive vulnerability is a major consequence, but a greater casualty is Truth. Truth has gone from being fundamental to being something “optional” – subjective or relative and of lesser importance than someone being offended or hurt.

Of course, it would be easy to simply fob these young adults off as emotional mutants – spiteful narcissists – who cannot survive school without the school’s provision of safe spaces, cookies, puppies, and hug sessions.

Previous generations of students (my own included) were often intimidated when presented with course books that had titles like Elements of Calculus and Analytic Geometry. But such books had their purpose. They were part of what had to be dealt with in order to be prepared for the adult world of ever-expanding technology.

In addition, it was expected that any student be prepared to learn (at university, if he had not already done so at home), to consider all points of view, including those less palatable. In debating classes, he’d be expected to take any side of any argument and argue it as best he could.

In large measure, these requirements have disappeared from institutions of higher learning, and in their place, colleges provide colouring books, Play-Doh, and cry closets.

At the same time as a generation of “snowflakes” is being created, the same jurisdictions that are most prominently creating them (the above-mentioned EU, US, Canada, etc.) are facing, not just a generation of young adults who have a meltdown when challenged in some small way. They’re facing an international economic and political meltdown of epic proportions.

Several generations of business and political leaders have created the greatest “kick the can” bubble that the world has ever witnessed.

We can’t pinpoint the day on which this bubble will pop, but it would appear that we may now be quite close, as those who have been kicking the can have been running out of the means to continue.

The approach of a crisis is doubly concerning, as, historically, whenever generations of older people destroy their economy from within, it invariably falls to the younger generation to dig the country out of the resultant rubble.

Never in history has a crisis of such great proportions loomed and yet, never in history has the unfortunate generation that will inherit the damage been so unequivocally incapable of coping with that damage.

As unpleasant as it may be to accept, there’s no solution for idiocy. Any society that has hardwired a generation of its children to be unable to cope will find that that generation will be a lost one.

It will, in fact, be the following generation – the one that has grown up during the aftermath of the collapse – that will, of necessity, develop the skills needed to cope with an actual recovery.

So, does that mean that the world will be in chaos for more than a generation before the next batch of people can be raised to cope?

Well, no. Actually, that’s already happening. In Europe, where the Millennial trend exists, western Europeans have been growing up coddled and incapable, whilst eastern Europeans, who have experienced war and hardship, are growing up to be quite capable of handling whatever hardships come their way. Likewise, in Asia, the percentage of young people who are being raised to understand that they must soon shoulder the responsibility of the future is quite high.

And elsewhere in the world – outside the sphere of the EU, US, Canada, etc. – the same is largely true.

As has been forever true throughout history, civilisation does not come to a halt. It’s a “movable feast” that merely changes geographic locations from one era to another.

Always, as one star burns out, another takes its place. What’s of paramount importance is to read the tea leaves – to see the future coming and adjust for it.

Editor’s Note: Polls suggest that a majority of Millennials now favor socialism. And a growing number favor outright communism.

Sometime this year, Millennials are expected to surpass Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living adult generation. This is one of the reasons Bernie Sanders and other socialists are soaring in popularity. And when the next crisis hits, the situation will likely reach a tipping point.

That’s exactly why Doug Casey and his team just released this urgent video outlining exactly what’s going to happen… and how you can protect yourself and even profit from the situation. Click here to watch it now.

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YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe

We had a great President shot out from under us.
Ah, what the world would be like had LBJ never set foot in the Oval Office.

Pequiste
Pequiste

Two items caught my attention:

“… colleges provide colouring books, Play-Doh, and cry closets.”

Jeff forgot to mention the inclusion of incessant hate propaganda against the very builders of the society where they exist, and in most cases, the very founders of said academic institutions.

And what about the blankies?

“As unpleasant as it may be to accept, there’s no solution for idiocy. ”

Sure there is: Darwin competitions, sterilization (5G everyone?), biological plague, and conquest by virile civilizations.

Ghost

I copied the same… is it true?

“In large measure, these requirements have disappeared from institutions of higher learning, and in their place, colleges provide colouring books, Play-Doh, and cry closets.”

Is that exaggeration? Do some colleges really do that? I’ve been seeing those adult coloring books all over the place. WTF?

Josh
Josh

The problem is kids today are being taught not how to think but rather what to think. Imagine placing nuclear weapons into the hands of people who can’t even figure out what gender they are.

Mygirl...maybe

Should SHTF little snowflakes will melt. They will whinge and cry and attack you if they think you have food or whatever, leave them to their devices and they will die out fairly fast.

Ghost

Well, howdy.

My son, who took about 24 years to get a real job and get out, finally got a clue when he realized at least one third of his promised salary gets stolen before he can touch it.

He no longer believes UBI is something that makes sense. If Stephanie were still around, hmmmm….

But, hell no…. even though I raised him with a prepper mentality (for a while I stored boxes of Mormon canned food under his bed – food he helped can!) and he attended at least one class on HAM radio operation* AND he has a fair to decent head on his shoulders, he really thinks all of my concerns over TEOTWAWKI are senility related now that life is all high rise apartments and a work environment that sounds more like a resort than work. Programmers/Software Engineers apparently require long periods of relaxing for short sessions of intense work.

He might save himself, but he probably ain’t digging society out of any rubble. Society is on its own. He’s been told he has Asperger’s Syndrome by the company mental health staff. From what I gather, that gives him permission to be rude as long as he can string together code.

*before he insulted the instructor and told me he would not be taking any more HAM radio classes with me.

America is a Donkey Show
America is a Donkey Show

“Programmers/Software Engineers apparently require long periods of relaxing for short sessions of intense work.”

This is a true thing. You have to see the thing, think about the thing, figure out the solution to the thing…THEN and only then can you program the thing.

Mygirl...maybe

I have a nephew with Aspergers, haven’t seen him in several years because his mother is a flaming liberal and thinks I am evil incarnate because I espouse a more ‘conservative’ view of the world. The nephew wasn’t a bad kid, but he was real unfortunate in the manner of his upbringing. His mother never learned to cook, sew, etc. and to this day she survives by begging money from our father and absolving herself of any responsibility. Her latest occupation is riding her bike. She’s in her sixties, BTW. As to helping society, well, she can tell you all about how bad and evil Trump is, beyond that I don’t have a clue if she’s capable of independent unscripted thought.

Ghost

Quote of the day, if I was on my computer. Hope someone else agrees.

Never in history has a crisis of such great proportions loomed and yet, never in history has the unfortunate generation that will inherit the damage been so unequivocally incapable of coping with that damage.

Lager
Lager

That’s the one that jumped out at me, Ozarks.
I might have been pampered a bit, being a tail end boomer.
But hell, I had a paper route. Was earning when I was 12. Been working ever since. 48 years.
Unfortunately, I should have saved more & spent less. Lesson learned.
The millennials have been coddled. Many are crushing it, but way more are lost.

It hit me, when they stopped giving trophies for winning; they gave them for participating.

Reality is vicious, cold bitch. They will not like her, and will whine, cry, pout. And starve.
She’s coming soon, to a theater near us all.
Buckle in. Gonna be a hell of a ride.

~Cheers.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

None of this is true about our millennials, or several of their friends, which is all that matters to me….The whiners get much more publicity than the achievers…

Stucky

The Bible (OT) says that God will punish the sins of the father to the 3rd generation, and beyond.

I always thought that was harsh and unjustified.

And then I met a Millennial ….

Ghost

And, then, if you are lucky (blessed?) your Millennial might actually gett a job and get out of the basement.

Ghost

And I gave birth to one.

And, now, I’m really pissed at Grandpa.

cz
cz

i find that their most infuriating and frustrating traits are a complete lack of humility which seems to lead to condescension and sarcasm as a common response to situations. i’ve met many many that are ignorant yet non-stop pontificators. also, they will not own mistakes made or admit to clear errors in judgment.
not that these things are exclusive to millenials, but that the traits have metastasized and expanded greatly. is that redundant? i didn’t look it up…

grace country pastor

Astute observation…

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