Tik Tok

[Maxmars]

Tik Tok has made humanity go full retard, and frankly so has much of social media. I say split the internet and develop cameras that can sense general age differences in the eyes or something to keep minors off. Every internet connected device is a direct portal to all of humans depraved deviant behaviors and brutalities. And millions of parents just give these things to their children like it is a need so they can look into their own devices without being interrupted. Schools have all but made it mandatory to have internet to do their homework.

Kids are barely even physically writing anymore. Its all good though. We are at a crossroads and this issue will resolve itself in about 25 years. I suspect after a good chunk of the boomers on Earth have passed and the homosexual generation fails to adequetly procreate to replace them, traditional families will once again be the policy makers and this crazy world will straighten up and slow on down.

OK, ouch!

First off, I believe I understand the vitriol and angst.  This is intensely infuriating, especially when the font of wisdom that is popular media destroys common sense in the story, while inflating the emotional impact.  But that's another story.

Generational differences and our collective inability (or unwillingness) to address this fact, coupled with the development and deployment of new technologies complicates our ability to accept change.  Our kids (and perhaps the two youngest generations) are always going to be different-minded.  It's the way we move onwards from where we are.  The things we call unacceptable, the things we see as insufferable may well in fact be real.  But much of it won't be, maybe it's just too different from before for us to find comfort in it.  Banning apps (that are ostensibly efficient in what they do) is attacking "the messenger."  That's never a good initial strategy for dealing with the problem.  There are solutions though.  Some draconian and authoritative, others vaguely useful, temporary, and because of the nature of our 'market' prone to be costly, and thus damaging to the community.

This problem starts at home.  You can't hide the ugliness of the world for your posterity... but you can put it into proper context.  That will help our society more than anything any institution can offer.  Even if it is only confessing to your children beforehand how disappointing you would find it, were they to become fodder for the meat vendors on the internet... something is better than nothing.

Our education system is effectively in the death throws.  Only a handful of teachers in each school district embrace the principles of pedagogy.  And many of them taught it to themselves, no such training is the focus of university anymore.  It is a difficult time to love teaching.  Especially when even the 'parent(s)' in the picture are suffering.

Your 25-year milestone is perhaps well-placed.  But the rationale you attend to seems alien to me. 

Yeah, advanced age is a bitch.  It stings when you realize that as alien those folks were to you as a youth is just as you are to youth now.  That's where all our potential is... in our youth.  And somehow, people can't be convinced that precious little can possibly be more important than that. When we fail them, we fail completely.

The emergence into social freedom of homosexuals is but a tiny (nearly infinitesimal) blip on the population issue.  Future procreation is a problem for sure... despite the years of indoctrination I witnessed about the "overpopulation problem" (Suck it, all you chicken littles!)  Unless of course, if it is all a conspiracy... But that's another story.

Tradition is a dangerous thing for society.  There's a time for it, but I think it wise to remember that there is also a time for everything but.  Change comes with time, inevitably.