The culture of peers, i.e. only spending time with people the same age at you, is utterly insane and absolutely unsustainable. It's sort of obvious when you really zoom out from our world, where insane coercive structures dominate our lives, but let me make it explicit.
The fact that school separates adults from children is considered “normal”, in the same way that a vast majority of people being utterly unable to provide for their own needs is normal — food, clothing, housing, transportation being the main ones, but certainly not the only ones — i.e. it's normal for the system which dictates our lives, but certainly not healthy.
When children spend time without adults, they lose out on safety and perspective, which they will constantly look elsewhere. Because our world is digitalized, this is probably where they'll look for those: safety through distraction, entertainment and mass media, perspective through motivational videos, self-help writers, etc. But none of those are wholesome because they're utterly devoid of any context, and instead are promoted solely based on their ability to capture a lot of attention.
When adults spend time without children, they forget the joys of innocent living, and also of living for something more than just attending to your selfish needs, which can be observed from the decline of parenting. Ironically, not having children tends to make adults more child-like, and reinforces a culture obsessed with pleasure and feeling good all the time — in the pornographic sense as previously discussed.
It is true that the unquestionable authority of the family opened the gate to many incredibly toxic dynamics, and no doubt that we benefited from loosening its grip on our lives. But the opposite of a bad and old idea is never a good one, in fact it's often quite significantly worse, because at least old ideas have passed the test of time enough to remain up until now. It doesn't mean they are great for allowing humans to thrive, but at least they are good enough to help them survive over a long period of time.
The culture of peers on the other hand leads to widening communication gaps across the vertical axis, i.e. generations, an increasingly childish and self-obsessed social environment, an atomization of life, a ramping up of echo chambers, and a rising number of young people utterly disconnected from any wisdom or real safety.
And all in the name of what? So that children can be conditioned at an early age to put the demands of the system above their own needs? So that they may be coerced into passively listening dull lessons for 8 hours a day, working away at meaningless assignments?
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2024-06-21