Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?
The Economist ^ | 09/28/24

Posted on 09/28/2024 7:33:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-31 next last

1 posted on 09/28/2024 7:33:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

“The tearful employee appears to have imbibed the notion of “my truth”, a popular phrase intended to rationalise the speaker’s beliefs and shield them from criticism based on facts.”

Sound like the hard-core Zeepers.


2 posted on 09/28/2024 7:36:17 AM PDT by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BobL

Fair question. Maybe we’re too rich.

Lifestyles of the rich are too out there.


3 posted on 09/28/2024 7:43:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DIRTYSECRET

Young people are overindulged in every way


4 posted on 09/28/2024 7:47:12 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: SMARTY
Young people are overindulged in every way

The American dream is out of reach. I am surprised any Gen Zer even tries to make it at all. It is all uphill for them. Low wages crushed by inflation, housing thru the roof and legal immigrants (H-1B) taking the good jobs every day.

5 posted on 09/28/2024 7:50:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

None of these articles point out that “family” is not what used to be the first and only husband, and the real father, as head of the family and home.

How do those families do in all the various measures, and also we need to start seeing the measure of effect of mother only families, which is very common today and seems to produce killers and angry, racist, and violent children who largely fill our prisons and are uneducable.


6 posted on 09/28/2024 7:54:36 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
But the main liberal argument for allowing Ms Begum to return home is that it is against international law to make someone stateless. If it were not, countries could dump all their criminals on foreign shores and refuse to take them back.

Well, thank goodness we don't allow *that* to happen!

7 posted on 09/28/2024 7:54:48 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, like the state of New Hampster.

What he describes may be the current culture of the West, but it is not Western culture. Get back to real Western culture and notice the difference.


8 posted on 09/28/2024 8:03:45 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
I don't want to grow up.


9 posted on 09/28/2024 8:08:48 AM PDT by BipolarBob (You may call me blind, deaf and dumb but I'm sill a Pinball Wizard.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: DIRTYSECRET
Maybe we’re too rich.

I made a statement on this forum 20 or so years ago that affluence would be our downfall. Very few agreed.

10 posted on 09/28/2024 8:10:26 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: central_va

they should be glad for their current “rough life”. just a few hundred years ago virtually everything in life was uphill. for many there WERE no wage. at all. starvation was the real threat and if you didn’t know how to forage or grow your own, starvation was a real possibility. housing? if you couldn’t build your own house or live with others who did, you were homeless. and then there were those who took everything you had away because you couldn’t or wouldn’t fight back. back then it was outlaws and today it’s government. the “American dream” came out of survivalism. seems we are back to it again. good luck folks. you are going to need it.


11 posted on 09/28/2024 8:13:45 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

“Dressing up like My Little Pony”
At this very moment I am at a cabin in Maine with a group of my fellow Bronies hanging out and having nerd fun. Among them are a tax accountant, a cranberry farmer and super genius researcher/entrepreneur.


12 posted on 09/28/2024 8:28:50 AM PDT by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suits. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
...it is against international law to make someone stateless. If it were not, countries could dump all their criminals on foreign shores and refuse to take them back.

Never happened. Especially in a large North American country. /s

13 posted on 09/28/2024 8:29:36 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

My step DIL loves the term your mythology.


14 posted on 09/28/2024 8:43:05 AM PDT by redangus ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMARTY

But they still demand their adulting stickers.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 8:52:43 AM PDT by bgill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Of course, the “whole generation” is not being condemned, but an alarming trend is being noted.

More snarky Rothschilds corporate, anonymous writing that concludes exactly the opposite of all evidence cited.


16 posted on 09/28/2024 9:05:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BlackbirdSST

“Hard times make strong men...”

The Fourth Turning.

Or, on the family level:

“Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”


17 posted on 09/28/2024 9:09:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: BlackbirdSST
affluence would be our downfall

You are right. Look at almost any "problem" society faces and you will find it to be a first world problem. Massive obesity is an example.

18 posted on 09/28/2024 9:14:27 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

No mention of home life. Many of these young people grew up without what was once taken for granted as being a normal childhood.

How many of them come from an intact family? How many of them were packed off to daycare, where strangers housed them? How many of them were raised properly by their own mothers at home? How many have had the benefit of a father’s guidance and discipline?

Proper childcare is important work and not something that should be farmed out to strangers. It requires parents to teach their children proper behavior, manners, how to cope, etc.


19 posted on 09/28/2024 9:24:05 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
It's a consequence of the expansion of Consumerism and debt-funded economics.

There are entire industries that would shrink to near zero if they couldn't produce and market to adult children but instead had to face a market of "sane, sober, moral, and prudent" people.

20 posted on 09/28/2024 9:37:57 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-31 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson