...why I greatly dislike these young'uns.
What both of them* say is correct. What do both have in common? Feelings! We live in an age where feelings seek to rule all. From the pathology of fear to the egocentric mindset to the effort to become the ultimate victim, it all stems from feelings. It is why I say primitivism is making a huge comeback. It is about superstition and what one feels.
The greatest age we've know, the Age of Reason, is in danger of being supplanted by the Age of Feelings. We've always had our feelings and were always in danger of succumbing to them. But, at least in the past, reasoned thought, wisdom, and knowledge were held as the ideals and were tools against feelings running rampant. They are not necessarily held in such high regard any longer. It is how one feels that seeks primacy of place now. That's why the young think their "voices" are as important as anyone else's. After all, feelings, freed from reason, have no order of import. They're all as valid as any other. When feelings are paramount, then those feelings are amplified beyond what is rational. That is why fear is so prevalent now: it is unreasoned feelings let loose in the world. Fear untempered by reason is dangerous.
I think you raise some interesting points. But what causes those feelings to be held higher than reason? And is this applicable to all or just to some? Are our own views distorted by the excesses of a few?
So, there you go, my grand theory of the age: feelings, unmoored by reason, rule and are the source of many of our current problems.
- "them" being Tom and Damookster
But what is the cause? I think that if we can identify a cause then we will have the beginnings of a solution to the problem at hand. Or perhaps we can't save these individuals and they will need to save themselves. Enough scientific endeavors are moving forward that I don't think we will find ourselves in a decline of civilization. And I have hopes that outside the US things are better at universities in Continental Europe that we in the Anglosphere are the isolated case. At least when I read news from Germany and Russia I don't see the primacy of feelings.
So perhaps the start of the solution is a reform of our school system and who ends up going to school. Certainly if one does a cost-benefit analysis then a university education is not for everyone.
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