you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Any of them that move here work remotely so we don't get the chance to give them a proper attitude adjustment at the office like we did with yankee boys back in High School.

[–]naples 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The problem is in my humble opinion, television. Instead of playing baseball and roughhousing and forming gangs with the lads, television pacifies young men.

It was young men (and gangs of young men) historically that enforced social norms.

[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Not just television. In general, our communications media have now so closely approached reality that most people's minds are satisfied to accept the stimulation of the media as reality. So rather than compare what they see on the screen to what's happening in real life, they have made the two equivalent. In other words, people think the image of reality they are given in print, TV, radio, social media, etc is absolutely equal to reality itself. More and more are waking up to the split between the two, but not yet enough. The equivalence of these two elements (picture of reality and reality itself) needs to be absolutely and thoroughly rejected before we can see real change. The process is happening, but it better happen more quickly. The consequences of the confusion are now very deadly indeed.

[–]naples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it goes deeper than that. With television people tend to sit on the couch and complain, "Yeah, somebody ought to go out and do something about that!"....while staying home to tune in to the next documentary.

Who would a young John Conner recruit today, if there are no men in the beerhalls to preach to?