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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We destroyed childhood and young adulthood. We made it competitive, stressful, and pressure filled. [b]You used to be allowed to be lazy and idle in your youth, to experiment and try stuff out without major consequences. [/b]
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We destroyed childhood. We destroyed summer, we destroyed after school, we ruined school sports and activities. We ruined academics with a fixation on test taking and benchmarking over wholistic learning, sustained attention, and deep learning. Oh yeah, and we addicted everyone to personal device screens which numb and distract but actually diminish happiness as they replace interpersonal interactions and physical activity, which are both known to boost endorphins and happiness.

We messed it up folks, but it's not too late. We can fix it. But step one is to acknowledge we have a problem.[/quote]

To say you were allowed to be lazy and idle is to have a very short view of history. Early 20th century and before young people were largely doing chores on the family farm from a very young age. And go back even further and they weren't even really allowed to have much of a teenagehood - they were getting factory jobs or starting families. In hunter gatherer situations 8 year olds were raising 2 year olds in a pack of kids, and that kind of situation lasted until the late 19th century in some communities (read Lark Rise to Candleford to see it described in 1890s rural England).[/quote]

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