2014, a US general was quoted saying “the quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,” with 71 percent of current 17-24-year-olds ineligible due to obesity, criminal records, mental health or drug issues. Meanwhile, a recent survey highlighted that while 70 percent of senior citizens could pass a US citizenship test, less than 20 percent of those under 45 could, Adams writes.
:sicko-yes: based zoomers depleting the American Empire’s military power :amerikkka:
a recent survey highlighted that while 70 percent of senior citizens could pass a US citizenship test, less than 20 percent of those under 45 could, Adams writes.
if this is actually representative of reality it’s actually a bit insane. i did a practice test and got a score of 85% and i’m not american, don’t plan on becoming american nor have ever studied american history in detail.
it also makes it a bit funnier how rabid the patriotic hogs are while they probably couldn’t pass their own country’s citizenship test.
Well yeah once you accurately understand this country, the historical governing forces comprised solely of capital since day 1, and its sordid history; the only rational response is to want to burn it all down. Of course our most fanatical patriots wouldn’t know shit about their own country. The conditions are mutually exclusive. Even the winners, the capitalists, have ‘wealth psychologists’ and sycophants to whisper the self hate and loathing away.
Wonder if there was an economic system that did this to them? Nah, it’s China’s fault.
According to that article it’s the “Destruction of the American family” that caused it.
There’s a quote in it that blames cannabis use on lack of family dinners.
I’m not familiar with US tabloids, is it common for them to spout weird boomer shit like this? The tabloids in the UK do shit like this but it’s sandwiched between thirsting over teenage girls.
I was expecting a shitty article, but they were surprisingly mask-off fascist in this one.
Complete with a quote from an army general lamenting that there aren’t enough good americans willing to serve their country, followed immediately by this:
Meanwhile, a recent survey highlighted that while 70 percent of senior citizens could pass a US citizenship test, less than 20 percent of those under 45 could, Adams writes.
“I never hear young people professing love for their country,” Adams writes. “I used to. But not lately. That is when I really think teachers have a front row seat for America’s decline.”
A couple extra quotes:
Religion has been replaced by a mass culture of “banality, conformity, and self-indulgence”
While teachers once helped students become their “best selves” by putting the focus on curriculums, lesson plans and test scores, he writes, that’s given way to trying to “understand” young people through programs emphasizing suicide and depression awareness, human trafficking concerns, or bullying, gangs and shootings.
studies have shown that regular family dinners leads to less youth “smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use, violence, school problems, eating disorders and sexual activity
The neglect of family life is one of the greatest causes of the hollowing out not only of students, but of American life
I wonder what causes the destruction of families. Surely it’s not forcing every adult member of every household to work multiple jobs and/or suffer long commutes to make ends meet.
Hard to have a family dinner when the only hours everyone is home and awake are 8p-10p.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
This guy probably
Naa:
It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version. In fact, more than one section of his thesis has been excerpted and then attributed classical luminaries.
Love how capitalism doesnt acknowledge how it’s eating itself
Has the teacher considered its because he teaches in fucking Bakersfield, where there’s no hope of anything?
Is it the fact we live in the middle of nowhere, with a drug problem, and no options for students, or is it these damn cell phones?
When I was a kid growing up in a rural area, anyone who stayed after graduating high school was called a skid. They always worked the shit jobs like convenience store because the local forestry place was still employing their dads and grandads so they still had full employment. The skids always came from rougher families and, yeah, they were totally hopeless and didnt think they had a better future and no means of escaping.
We are all skids now. All power to the skids.
came here to say exactly that. you live in a wasteland of pollution and heat, separated from any urban center by mountains and hours of driving, surrounded by angry chuds and exploited migrant laborers. what the hell do you expect these kids to get excited about? “getting out of bakersfield” only motivates kids who have the means to actually get away.
