The Fundamental Problem: Indoctrination
How to Fox What’s Already Been Broken When We aren’t Even Stopping it from Continuing?
One of the problems we on the Right face is that more than a generation of kids have been maleducated.
They have been indoctrinated into innumeracy and greed explicitly designed to make them envious of success, eager to be supported by government, and unwilling to expend significant effort to improve their lives.
Yes, it’s hard to buy a house to t now compared to 10-20 years ago. But it’s easier than 50 and 40 years ago. And their grandparents still did it, still bought houses with 15% interest rate mortgages.
I realize that telling the youngest generations to suck it up and overcome is NOT a winning political message. I also realize that “we can just take what you need from white Republicans and billionaires” is a winning political message, though, and I think that clearly highlights what our problem currently is:
Too many Americans don’t want life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They are willing to abandon all those (or, perhaps more accurately, take those rights away from their political opponents) to benefit from the Democrat NGO grift that is looting our nation.
Obviously, we simply MUST fix education. We must stop the indoctrination and teach math and civics.
If we can’t do it nationwide, we have to do it in Red States as a marketplace of policies counterweight to Leftist indoctrination, to show true education yields better outcomes.
But that doesn’t solve the problem of Generation Z, et al, claiming they’ve already done enough to be comfortable and demanding the govt give them the success they think they’ve already earned.
What do we do????
Looks like you’re circling this from 30,000 feet. There’s a lot going on here, but it’s hard to diagnose at that altitude.
One thing that occurs to me is that education used to transmit a worldview; now it mostly transmits a workflow. Kids learn how to perform, comply, and credentialize, but not how to navigate uncertainty, improvise, or understand tradeoffs.
Of course, in the absence of a better alternative, workflow becomes a worldview, just a really impoverished one. It trains students to expect life to behave like a vending machine. There’s no transmission of the fact that school is the nest and the world doesn’t work like a classroom.
I won’t get deep into the economics except to say theres more going on than just interest rates. The bottom rung of the housing market has been sawn off. Forty years ago, two-fifths of new homes were under 1,400 square feet; now it’s less than a tenth. It’s the same thing that happened to the car market: you get more for your money, sure, but the no‑frills option doesn’t (legally) exist anymore.