So, just a quick forecast (my personal hypothesis) of what this will lead to, short term: really bad, profoundly ugly drug epidemics.
And we have seen bad. We’re in the middle of a bad one.
But ten years down the line, we’ll see a new generation show up, pent up and ready to explode. And drug dealers will be there, ready to harvest some cash.
Every tightly wound miserable kid you see today is going to find a way to lash out or somehow escape tomorrow, and most of the time, with regular people, that takes the shape of getting annihilated as quickly and easily as possible. In part, self destruction as revenge for vicarious ambition on the part of authority figures. In part to literally render demanded performance an impossibility, whether for spite or not.
Probably nothing can fix this. The die is cast. Public schools in the United States are on a collision course with a transformative upheaval not unlike what we’ve witnessed with the decaying husk of the formerly behemoth United States Postal Service.
Actually, on second thought, we’ve been standing face to face with it, if you consider how school shootings mirror “disgruntled postal workers” “going postal” in the 1990’s, just prior to the sensational media coverage of school shootings in particular.
And we have seen bad. We’re in the middle of a bad one.
But ten years down the line, we’ll see a new generation show up, pent up and ready to explode. And drug dealers will be there, ready to harvest some cash.
Every tightly wound miserable kid you see today is going to find a way to lash out or somehow escape tomorrow, and most of the time, with regular people, that takes the shape of getting annihilated as quickly and easily as possible. In part, self destruction as revenge for vicarious ambition on the part of authority figures. In part to literally render demanded performance an impossibility, whether for spite or not.
Probably nothing can fix this. The die is cast. Public schools in the United States are on a collision course with a transformative upheaval not unlike what we’ve witnessed with the decaying husk of the formerly behemoth United States Postal Service.
Actually, on second thought, we’ve been standing face to face with it, if you consider how school shootings mirror “disgruntled postal workers” “going postal” in the 1990’s, just prior to the sensational media coverage of school shootings in particular.
No end in sight. C’est la vie.