...creating “group think” via “group” work projects, etc.
We wonder why so many kids run in herds. A social family is created and this neutralizes or alienates the natural family.
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This explains a lot. This is why they are now taught to do everything in *teams* and why we see so many media articles written by multiple people.
Eradication of individuality.
Someone put a lot of thought and effort into that. They took the natural tendency for teens to form cliques and manipulated it into those *herds* *following* programmed *influencers* on FB, IG, et al. In prior development, the herd broke up sometime in their 20s. By 30, people were married and formed their own families, usually only retaining 1-2 of their old crowd.
Explains the social need for extended adolescence and the never-married couples with children, too.
I believe so. It is “training” and not really *teaching*, per se. Frog boiling has gone well over the course of decades. Now we see the cultural result.