Posted on 07/24/2017 5:01:27 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Early in 2017, ABC breathlessly reported, “Hair loss and balding are something we associate with aging, not a younger population, yet more and more millennials say they're experiencing hair loss.”
Theories include diet and health problems. But Moneyish.com didn't hesitate to conclude: “Millennials are going bald from too much stress.”
We live in a rich, safe, successful country. Why is there so much stress? Why do so many young people feel they are under siege and about to be overrun?
Perhaps we should look at what public schools, in tandem with higher education and the media, tend to emphasize. Namely, pessimism and vulnerability. Our educational institutions seem to be fiendishly efficient stress factories, able at all levels to produce fearful people who will be crippled by any amount of pressure.
First of all, what is being accomplished in public schools? Anything to be proud of? There’s a lot of busywork and light-weight academic activity. I suspect few kids are deeply engaged and even fewer are bragging about how much they learned the past year. That leaves kids uninvolved, drifting, a perfect recipe for anxiety and stress.
Second, nothing noble and brave is mentioned if our Education Establishment can manage it. Has any millennial ever heard that John Paul Jones said, “I’ve not yet begun to fight.” This is a message that everyone needs throughout their lives. Have younger people heard that Nathan Hale said, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” That is brave stuff, and prompts us all to a higher standard.
A Roman soldier named Horatius, twenty-five centuries ago, stood on a bridge to fight an advancing army. This story (Horatius at the Bridge) became central to Rome’s identity. Every Roman kid wanted to be Horatius.
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Plenty of them are simply shaving off nice heads of hair.
I’ve never seen a generation of so many guys simply opting to shave their heads. Right up into their 30’s. And I’m not talking about crew-cuts.
Schools these days are like prisons, and I hated school back then, hell even the teachers I talk to a ready to retire and get the heck out of there, If I went to school these days I think I would have taken my GED in the 11th grade and got the hell out early.
You read my mind. I was getting ready to post something similar, and you beat me to it. Thank you FReeper.
It’s all the high-res cameras. They notice the receding hairline and bald spots earlier.
MSG and probably aspertame give me serious miserable migraines.
The only fix is to sleep it off and I have the most bizarre dreams that are borderline nightmares.
“We have eliminated many sources of physical danger and instead invented a multitude of social problems that we are poorly equipped to deal with.”
I call them “First World Problems”.
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It’s the gender thing. How terribly triggered they must be every time a new gender is announced. Here’s a list of 63 genders, but I can feel my hair falling out at the thought I might have missed the latest one just identified.
And now we have Pajama Boy.
It’s very stressful to question what sex you really are when every week new gender bender designations are publicized. At last count, there were 63
I started losing my hair early because my maternal grandfather passed the bald gene through my mother....
How come we stopped hearing about Gen X years ago?
I think it’s because we are working too hard taking care of our parents and having our millennial kids keep coming home.
You realize that you could change that picture for a convoy in Afghanistan full of millennials, right?
They are not all pussies.
>It’s getting pretty crazy. And I think hormonal treatments in the food are to blame.
More likely from the drinking water.
You realize that you could change that picture for a convoy in Afghanistan full of millennials, right?
Credit is due.
Same here. I started losing mine at 15. Doc said it was male pattern baldness.
No one considers that many of these millennials were birthed by women whose fathers were bald...
No lie. When I was stuffing bales of hay in the top of a tin barn in 100 degree heat, I didn’t have time to worry. My grandfather was, as he said “in Patton’s army”. That was pretty much all he said, but for some reason he had 12 or 13 campaign ribbons, and a bronze star with a V hidden in a chest. No stress compared to these weaklings!
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