If the question is capitalism vs. personal choice, I ask por que no los dos?
I never watched Rings of Power, though get what you mean about Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.
Haven’t children been that way ever since Watergate? Caveat: perhaps to an ever-increasing degree, as the number of such events increases. Who today that does not already own a home ever have a hope to do so? (In most Western nations) Who hopes for social security in the USA to be more than merely yet another tax paid out without expectation of remuneration? Who expects a return on health insurance either? When you have to pay out multiple thousand before even a single dime gets paid out, in that realm of low cost you essentially don’t have health insurance (and then do, briefly, and then if there isn’t a cap on payments, back to again not).
The cynicism is entirely logical. Or at least was prior to this year. In the future, people will merely either be alive vs. not, it would seem, e.g. with some projections saying that over a billion people will die in the next 5-20 years, and possibly half (to all) of the population of Earth a couple decades after that. They know this… they aren’t stupid, and unlike the oldest generations, aren’t sticking their heads in the sand purposefully. Their eyes are wide open as they are being brutalized, by the very same people they call “family”. Whatever adolescence should or should not have been is no longer relevant, as extinction itself is now on the table and potentially imminent in their - and even our - lifetimes (especially with the aid of the specter of the likes of WWIII to help speed it along?).
Or if none of that is true, it at least might be, and either way seems to sum up how they feel.
If the question is capitalism vs. personal choice, I ask por que no los dos?
I never watched Rings of Power, though get what you mean about Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.
Haven’t children been that way ever since Watergate? Caveat: perhaps to an ever-increasing degree, as the number of such events increases. Who today that does not already own a home ever have a hope to do so? (In most Western nations) Who hopes for social security in the USA to be more than merely yet another tax paid out without expectation of remuneration? Who expects a return on health insurance either? When you have to pay out multiple thousand before even a single dime gets paid out, in that realm of low cost you essentially don’t have health insurance (and then do, briefly, and then if there isn’t a cap on payments, back to again not).
The cynicism is entirely logical. Or at least was prior to this year. In the future, people will merely either be alive vs. not, it would seem, e.g. with some projections saying that over a billion people will die in the next 5-20 years, and possibly half (to all) of the population of Earth a couple decades after that. They know this… they aren’t stupid, and unlike the oldest generations, aren’t sticking their heads in the sand purposefully. Their eyes are wide open as they are being brutalized, by the very same people they call “family”. Whatever adolescence should or should not have been is no longer relevant, as extinction itself is now on the table and potentially imminent in their - and even our - lifetimes (especially with the aid of the specter of the likes of WWIII to help speed it along?).
Or if none of that is true, it at least might be, and either way seems to sum up how they feel.