Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!!
All according to plan.
Posted on 02/17/2024 9:25:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Interesting analysis this morning from Axios in a “Deep Dive: Inside the Mind of Gen Z.” The piece pulls together a bunch of data points and quotes from experts to provide a snapshot of a generation that, at least in my humble opinion, is in deep trouble.
Here’s the key data from the Axios analysis:
“By the numbers: Gen Z (defined as people roughly ages 12 to 27) reports the poorest mental health of any generation, according to a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report.
- “Just 44% of Gen Zers say they feel prepared for the future.
“The big picture: They dodged familiar teen pitfalls — with lower teen pregnancy rates and lower rates of alcohol use. Instead, they’re grappling with alarming rates of loneliness, depression and suicidal thoughts.
“Zoom in: Partly by choice and partly out of necessity during the pandemic, Gen Z socializes online, rather than in person, far more than previous generations. That’s not healthy, experts say.”
I suspect that manreaders will immediately grasp the connections within those datapoints, so let’s do a little digging of our own and bring them to the surface in a way the Axios analysis avoided.
First, note that less than half of the respondents feel prepared for the future. For those still in or just entering adolescence, that’s no surprise, but there are millions of Gen Zers between the ages of 21 and 27.
Not feeling prepared for the future is another way of expressing significant insecurity and anxiety about their purpose and prospects in life, which ultimately is a spiritual issue.
So, it’s no coincidence that Gen Z is also the least faith-oriented, as found by the Survey Center on American Life”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
This is to be expected from all that leftist brainwashing and indoctrination they receive in the schools.
The flood of illegals and socialists in the government is what is destroying the country.
(This is to be expected from all that GODLESS leftist brainwashing and GODLESS indoctrination they receive in the schools.)
FIFY 😇
Leftism is essentially a creed of hate, denial and despair.
America for the most part has abandoned God or like the democrat party, outright, officially rejected Him.
Thus, He is leaving us to our own devices. *You want a world with out Me? Fine. You get it.*
And now we are reaping the whirlwind......
The Obozo/Biden Administration and the Marxist Dems are promoting the destruction of the USA. There won’t be an election in November.
Obama Seeks to Knock US Down a Peg
By Thomas Sowell, Monday, 01 October 2012, newsmax.com
Much puzzling behavior by Barack Obama falls into place when we go behind the image that he projects (”Obama 1”) to the factual reality of the man’s whole life and thrust (”Obama 2”). Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: “When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off.”
Many of Barack Obama’s actions as president of the United States reflect neither political expediency nor an attempt to promote the best interests of the American people. Take, for example, his bowing low from the waist to foreign leaders. No president of the United States had ever done that before. It gained Obama nothing with the voters, nor was there any reason to think that he expected it to. Why then did he do it?
What did it accomplish? It brought the United States down a peg, in the eyes of the world, something that he has sought to do in many other ways. These bows were perfectly consistent with his view of a mal-distribution of power and prestige internationally, just as his domestic agenda reflects a felt need for a redistribution of wealth and power within American society. It is not just the United States, but the Western world in general, including Israel, that needs to be brought down a peg, from the standpoint of the ideology prevalent among the people with whom Barack Obama has allied himself consistently for decades.
Against that background, it is not at all puzzling that President Obama has clamped down on offshore oil drilling by Americans in the Gulf of Mexico, but has actually encouraged and subsidized offshore oil drilling by Brazil with our tax dollars. Nor is it surprising that he imposes draconian restrictions on industrial activities in the United States, in the name of fighting “global warming,” while accepting the fact that Third World nations that are beginning to industrialize will generate far more pollution than any restrictions in America can possibly offset.
That is another example of international redistribution — and payback for perceived past oppressions or exploitation of the West against the non-West. So is replacing pro-Western governments in the Middle East with Islamic extremist governments. Some people may have gotten focused on the issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate because so much of what he has done seems foreign to American ideals, traditions, and interests. But birth tells us nothing about loyalty. One-time American Communist leader Earl Browder was descended from the Pilgrims.
Those who have questioned whether Barack Obama is really a citizen of the United States have missed the larger question: Whether he considers himself a citizen of the world. Think about this remarkable statement by Obama during the 2008 campaign: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that every other country is going to say, ‘OK.’” Are Americans supposed to let foreigners tell them how to live their lives? The implied answer is clearly “Yes!” When President Obama went to the United Nations for authority to take military action and ignored the Congress of the United States, that was all consistent with his vision of the way the world should be.
How has Obama gotten away with so many things that are foreign to American beliefs and traditions? Partly it is because of a quiescent media, sharing many of his ideological views and/or focused on the symbolism of his being “the first black president.” But part of his success must be credited — if that is the word — to his own rhetorical talents and his ability to project an image that many people accept and welcome.
The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don’t know the facts — and often sounds like sheer nonsense if you do. But he is not trying to convince skeptics, nor worried about looking ridiculous to informed people who won’t vote for him anyway. This is a source of much polarization between those who see and accept Obama 1 and those who see through that facade to Obama 2.
I’ll have to look
Was that ever a separate thread?
Bkmk
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They need prayers.
It’s a good post
I’m just saying it also deserved its own thread as well
Maybe it was posted way back
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Proverbs 30:11-14, 17
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness. There is a generation—oh, how lofty are their eyes!
Proverbs 30:11-17
Some people curse their father and do not thank their mother. KJV There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Of course they are unprepared. They had helicopter parents doing all the work for them. They never learned much about life. They socialize online, so they don’t know how to interact in real life. They don’t have sex, they don’t have relationships, because they are uncomfortable in these situations and in their own skins. They think the world will end soon, they think it’s their responsibility to fix things they cannot control. They got poor educations and in the face of any serious work they are ill equipped to handle it. They don’t even know how to analyze it. They are experts at how to pose for selfies and what they are supposed to say regardless of whether they actually believe it - they live a forced form or cognitive dissonance and are unable or unwilling to attempt to resolve it. They are repressed, fearful of breaking from the dogmatic views they grew up in because of peer pressure. They don’t want to get flamed or bullied online. They don’t want to post anything controversial because it will be on their “permanent record” (the internet is forever).
Yes there are exceptions.
Planned with the governments help
Daycare didn’t help and then add pagan schools. Their parents using drugs and anti-God influence are all factors.
Well said.
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