Speeding Upsets Residents
April 22, 2024
Do the thing and you’ll have the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes you need to confront something that is not fun. An unwillingness to do this may be the downfall of the youngest generation of our society. It seems sometimes that they do not want to do hard work.
It’s an interesting fact that societies tend to fall when they embrace hedonism over a good work ethic.
The fact that laziness is on the rise is reflected in historic rates of nonparticipation in the workforce by young men, the “Great Resignation” movement, and the difficulty many employers find in securing employees willing to do challenging jobs.
Meanwhile, social media provides a platform for virtue signaling in abundance. Perhaps we have gained in a false sense of superiority to the same degree we have lost in work ethic.
Will these factors simultaneously tank our economy at home and continue to stoke resentment abroad or can the situation at hand be reversed?
In answer to the question, are we doomed? No. Our future is within our control However, the first step to correcting a problem is to acknowledge that it exists.
Eric has a background in business, technology, and public policy. Eric earned a bachelor's in Finance from California State University, Northridge and a Master's in Public Policy and Administration from Sacramento State.
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One Response
I think the issue HAS been largely recognized and acknowledged by wider society: the official term “the great resignation” is commonly used online to describe what you’re lamenting.
The question MOST AREN’T asking is “why have so many elected to essentially drop out”? Why have large swaths of able bodied men either completely or partially withdraw from traditional society? That is what you should be focusing on… that is where the explanatory GOLD lies. Focus on the lacknof insensitives, diminished opportunities not only for financial independence and home ownership… but for basic relationship formation and family creation. Mairrage rates are at ALL TIME LOWS, so too family creation, college attendance amoung men has never been as low as it is now, military recruitment has cratered, and even basic dating/courtship activity are also at the lowest rates ever recorded. Men’s rights activists online (i.e. the proverbial mano’sphere) have been addressing these creeping issues for over a decade – though few have noticed. The social contract is broken: it would seem that many have performed the calculus and determined that the “juice is no longer worth the squeeze”.
What aspects of the modern world, what trends within the economy have contributed to these young mens’ feelings of dejection and the squashing of their hopes for a better tomorrow? Older readers here, catagorized as the boomer generation, must look back to their experiences during the 1970s…and only then will they BEGIN to understand what’s behind this relagating phenomenon. Whilst considering that 1970s period, note that our reality is actually FAR WORSE, because of rampant dehumanizing technology, a yet weaker dollar, anemic wage growth, and private/personal debt loads that are many multiples greater than those of the 1970s.
Thought experiment: ask any single man within your pwrsonal circle over the age of 24 or 25 how they meet new people and date today. Over 90% of all “dating” activity has been reduced to swiping left/right and cultivating a tik-tok or “gram” page. We collectively shouldn’t wonder WHY young men are “checking out” when the statistics of social media use are as dire and poor returning as they are.
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The title of this article made me think of a book I read back in 2009: “WE ARE DOOMED”. I’ve pasted the wiki summary below…
We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism is a 2009 non-fiction book by British-American writer John Derbyshire. He draws upon classical conservatism thinking to argue that modern Western civilization is dying and will eventually fail completely. He blames what he sees as a collectivist and Utopian mindset among the political left as well as an irrational optimism and faith in the future on the political right.[1] It was published by Crown Forum