Social media is abuzz with a survey showing 12th-grade boys are twice as likely to identify as conservative. The reality is a little more complicated, writes Arwa Mahdawi
Yea people just feel hopeless, and I don’t blame them when the system is literally rigged.
Self interest rules here. It is in most young peoples interest to just say fuck it, for their own well being and mental health, head in the sand and try to survive. What else to do? Corporate profit rules, and slavery is written into the constitution.
Through this same path of apathy I was able to find myself, and my own path forward, and here I am posting ramblings on lemmy. But I’m glad I’m not growing up today quite frankly, and im glad i had the people and friends I did. I was raised on punk rock lol.
If there is an uptick in conservatism, and or apathy it’s in large part to the sense of self depreciation that’s instilled in us, as well as that ever present streak of contrarianism in youth coupled with the disaster that is our education system and unhealthy use of social media.
Polarization and Apathy are a feature of the political and economic system it would seem to me. But I’m just a self depreciating uneducated idiot, with my own fair share of apathy.
Yea people just feel hopeless, and I don’t blame them when the system is literally rigged.
Self interest rules here. It is in most young peoples interest to just say fuck it, for their own well being and mental health, head in the sand and try to survive. What else to do? Corporate profit rules, and slavery is written into the constitution.
Through this same path of apathy I was able to find myself, and my own path forward, and here I am posting ramblings on lemmy. But I’m glad I’m not growing up today quite frankly, and im glad i had the people and friends I did. I was raised on punk rock lol.
If there is an uptick in conservatism, and or apathy it’s in large part to the sense of self depreciation that’s instilled in us, as well as that ever present streak of contrarianism in youth coupled with the disaster that is our education system and unhealthy use of social media.
Polarization and Apathy are a feature of the political and economic system it would seem to me. But I’m just a self depreciating uneducated idiot, with my own fair share of apathy.