06-02-2022, 02:17 PM
(06-02-2022, 01:54 PM)David Horn Wrote:(06-01-2022, 02:29 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: while I'm here, the Gen X culture of "figure it out yourself" needs to die. I respect the hell out of people who are able to do this, but I really REALLY hate how normalized it has become. Learning things from experience is a necessary part of life, but part of being a good parent or a good teacher is giving children information in advance....so that they don't have to learn things the hard way like you did. They will get their bumps, bruises and, perhaps, even broken bones from life, but at the same time, it makes no sense not to employ damage control or give heads up when possible. There is no need to make life more difficult than it needs to be.
Agreed, but that's only part of it. There has been a 50-year effort to make self sufficiency the ideal totem of this (and every other) society. Sorry. but I don't perform operations on myself, nor do I feel the need to malke my own clothes, capable or not. But being an island is part of the libvertarian ethos, and its both wrong and stupid. The entire point of a society is sharing the load. If I do somethings well and other things poorly, I should spend my time and effort on what I do well and have others do what I would do poorly.
Well said, guys.