01-18-2021, 03:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-18-2021, 03:46 PM by NightskyeB4Dawn.)
I have been encouraging people for over twenty years to be more self sufficient and less dependent on government. I never thought of it as going Galt, but I guess there are some similarities.
I could see the handwriting on the wall. Spending as much time as I did with pre-teens and teens, I could see how a life of entitlement was not preparing them for a life where they would never be able do as well as their parents, and would always be reliant on parents or government in their future.
I tried to encourage teens to by-pass all those wasted years, and money, seeking a college degree, that would likely just be apiece of paper they, and the five hundred other people, would be holding in their hands, while standing in line for that job at the burger joint. I tried to encourage them to learn skills that would at least increase their chances of finding work, or improve their chances of being able to work for themselves.
Your average teen will not consider a job if they have to get their hands dirty. They want to sit behind desks and just wait for lunch and the time to punch out. For them rules are not meant to be broken, they just don't pertain to them. I know it sounds like I am ragging on teens, much the way every older generation has done in the past. I don't blame the young people that have fallen victim in this trap.
They have been set up by a society that has been grooming them for life under the control of their masters.They really aren't spending much time or energy on us old folks. It is not worth it. Our time is short, so it benefits them to humor and tolerate us for now. Going self sufficient or going Galt, has to be something we teach the children.
There will only be a few that will listen, and even fewer that will be committed, but I guess in a way that is a good thing, since it will be the lack of numbers that would make the effort successful.
I could see the handwriting on the wall. Spending as much time as I did with pre-teens and teens, I could see how a life of entitlement was not preparing them for a life where they would never be able do as well as their parents, and would always be reliant on parents or government in their future.
I tried to encourage teens to by-pass all those wasted years, and money, seeking a college degree, that would likely just be apiece of paper they, and the five hundred other people, would be holding in their hands, while standing in line for that job at the burger joint. I tried to encourage them to learn skills that would at least increase their chances of finding work, or improve their chances of being able to work for themselves.
Your average teen will not consider a job if they have to get their hands dirty. They want to sit behind desks and just wait for lunch and the time to punch out. For them rules are not meant to be broken, they just don't pertain to them. I know it sounds like I am ragging on teens, much the way every older generation has done in the past. I don't blame the young people that have fallen victim in this trap.
They have been set up by a society that has been grooming them for life under the control of their masters.They really aren't spending much time or energy on us old folks. It is not worth it. Our time is short, so it benefits them to humor and tolerate us for now. Going self sufficient or going Galt, has to be something we teach the children.
There will only be a few that will listen, and even fewer that will be committed, but I guess in a way that is a good thing, since it will be the lack of numbers that would make the effort successful.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
