My observations of our messed up society

In fact if you look at truant unschooled children in the modern world what do quite a lot of them do? join street gangs. Another form of clique. And I’m sure there are cliques  within the street gangs. Prior to the industrial revolution I expect kids in rural areas also got into cliques. It’s just because the population was less dense it was probably more based on geography. 

As I’ve said before school as we know it is not really an invention of the Americans but the industrial revolution. Prior to that the norm was for children to learn a trade from their fathers or from  a skilled men in the community they might enter into some sort of arrangement with to apprentice.

The industrial revolution made it absolutely essential for children to go to school, partly because the work environment of the industrial revolution was particularly abusive and harmful towards children and keeping them in school was a way to keep them out of the mill. It was in a sense part of the social contract the government formed with the working class man that the children would get free education in exchange for not being a source of labour and income.

 It was also vital because the industrial revolution was making intellectual skills more important than physical ones. Literacy, mathematics, science, law, economics. These things were not easily taught on the job in a vocational setting.

And as I’ve said before after that The need for a more skilled workforce became a driving force infantilising young adults. Teenagers who previously enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy outside of their family units Had to be treated like Pre-pubescent children In order to justify  the loss of control and autonomy that was necessary to teach them In the sausage mincer system of  Compulsory classroom education. 

Where before in practice teenagers had gradually become adults in degrees more and more they were treated as children until they reached school leaving age which gradually went up until it reached 18 as it is now.

You can’t blame our modern school system on the Americans blame it on the industrial revolution and our poor way of handling the demands it put upon our nations intellectual capital

NAS89331 said:

Always been that way. Greed and the desire for power.

That is typically why wars have been fought since ancient times - these are not new things but in the hyperconnected news age we just hear about it much more quickly and with more sensation by the news channels.

I can remember plenty of really sick individuals from when I was young, but the ones who were a real menace to society (kiddy fiddlers, rapists etc) had a habit of being "dissapeared" and never found. Having a uncle who worked in the police force at the time and whose conversations I would often eavesdrop on, you soon realised this was often the acts of off duty police doing what the legal system would not tolerate.

The police force has always been corrupt I guess, but they have sometimes done society a favour.

Always been that way. Greed and the desire for power.

There are many things that can be blamed for our 'messed up' society.

However, I think blaming the 'United States Empire' for enforcing playground cliques is a tad unfair. I imagine those playground cliques exist all over the world.

I hate to break it to you, but society was plenty sick with all the traditions going strong (hell, bad traditions still rule the world).