Ahh... LOL No. Thank G-d. But, sometimes I feel as helpless as one. I'm technically Gen-X.
Dude, you've said on here you talk to your mom for 8 hours a day every day, and had serious health issues because of incredibly poor diet that you chose because you prefer to spend your money on an abundance of cheap PC hardware. You're basically the living embodiment of what people claim Millennials are, only they'd say you're a sad momma's boy geek on top of it because Millennials are supposedly ignoring everything but social media and coveting iPhones.
Its also very weird that you ignore several parts of that article, like how the guy straight up says people want to just blame shit and not think of solutions. Kinda like older generations trying to blame Millennials for anything and everything while they intentionally fuck things up and then try to blame it on Millennials. For fuck's sake we have a 70+ year old man that is more addicted to his Twitter than a Millennial teenage girl stereotype as the sitting President.
The other thing you ignore is that the helpless aspect came about due to generations of not needing to know how to do anything because everything was provided for them by a benevolent being, so they could just sit around eating and drinking and not giving a shit about anything. If you think that's true of Millennials then it was true of your gen and boomers too if you're making analogues to human society.
If they don't know anything, perhaps it was because their predecessor generation did not teach them.
What did you expect, someone to actually read and think about the article instead of just jumping to blame Millennials, while ignoring that article explicitly points out how fucking stupid that is? Or why they lost their knowledge of how to do things that not only did they not have to learn, but their parents and grandparents also didn't have to learn and therefore didn't pass onto them.
Guns are a problem but, they have nothing to do with the underlying causes. Why do you think it's necessary that every one of those huge city high schools has it's own police force and/or metal detectors? We react to the symptoms but, no one addresses the causes. Over population being the main driver. But hey, we can't let our children's safety get in the way of economics.
I was wrong, somehow missed the paragraph preceding where they took the final turn (where the females and males isolated and the males fought in aimless scrums because they had nothing better to do, just saw that they still had all the food and water but just chilled all the time and did nothing). I think we see a good amount of that behavior (guys falling for the pickup artist bullshit and treating dating as a game, while many women kinda isolate because they don't like that behavior, which then reduced the available mates further raising competition, while more of the females are driven off from looking due to the increasing behavior of the males). I'm just not sure if its higher than in the past, and I think it might be more prevalent in certain areas (cities for instance).
Did you read the article? Because that is the total opposite of what happened with the rats. They stopped fighting because they no longer had any need to as they were given food, shelter, and an abundance social interaction (without the need to establish dominance or other evolutionary things in order to continue their species - it led to them not fucking even which is why they died off). I'm not even sure that the crowding was the actual issue that led to the behavior that doomed them, although its interesting and I do think we see some parallels with modern society, where people perceive a lack of real personal space and so they indulge in escapism (via video games, movies, social media, etc). People self isolate due to overstimulus of the modern world, and so they withdraw, which leads to depression and other issues.
High schools though are different in several key areas, and thus we get much different results. One big one is that high schools have intense external pressures that didn't exist for the rats. High schools have routines and provide stimulus (classes), whereas the rats were free to kinda do whatever. The humans were also expected to move onto things later, while the rats just got to keep chilling.
It'd be interesting to recreate the tests while trying different things, stimulus for instance and see if it leads to the same results. And maybe different methods of dealing with the crowding issue.
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