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[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Many see reasoning as "boring", and life is supposed to be exciting according to American cultural norms.

I think that this is generally a Western thing, though American cultural influences might have played a role here. Somehow this has intersected with the current sentiment of living to satisfy vice and nothing else and now we ended up with this materialistic society where hard facts are not accepted well and are even perceived negatively.

Little Soldiers by Lenora Chu poses some interesting questions on this.

[–]Djfjfjdbffj 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for that link. I live in China and can confirm. It's a lack of available school and testing to organise society. Everything outside of the testing system is lost. This includes any morals not required for teaching a class at scale. AKA stuff you thought was essential for a functioning society but turns out to be fluff ethics.