Published on 12, July, 2020
Is that the system helped create an entire generation of isolationists, then forced them to conform.
It's about promoting the Brand. Post-War TV championed Standoffish US Individualism, while in the meantime creating Government-led Schooling. It convinced kids that life is a Warzone. This made them resentful, to the point where 'Counterculture' would flourish.
There was also the Increase of Street Gangs. The lack of a positive male role model, in the flesh, encouraged this turf war. Plus, it was the Mother, rather than the Father, who disciplined the child. Young men lost their sense of identity.
The two-pronged assault on the traditional way of life paved the way for this dystopia.
I see how there is a lack of positive male role models. People back in the day, had gender roles, which are roles that society gives a person based on their gender, because there were a lot of day-to-day tasks and responsibilities, and most of them were manual labor, considering it was before the times of common day appliances, like having machines do the work for you. So someone had to keep up with the household chores and watch the kids, while someone else had to go out and get the resources for the family. At least during those days, a family could get by on just one income.
But nowadays, a family can't survive on just one income because of inflation. So parents try to split up the household chores and time to work and raise the kids, but they are drained from all of it. More kids are being raised on devices, and who knows what they're watching on them. And schools can't get their attention for long enough to teach them anything of value.
Having the lack of positive father figures, and teenagers attracted to violence, and lenient laws against crime, will make for a scary society to live in.
Back in the day people had gender role models, I guess that really depends on how far back you go and if you were poor or not. This idea that women do somethings and men do other things is really quite modern, or at least the last 300 years or so, which is modern to me as an ancient and medieval historian, a ot of it started with the so called enlightenment, which wasn't very enlightened for many, just differently religious. Its also a very western idea, in other cultures both men and women worked outside the home and things like childcare were done by grandparents of both genders, in some cultures this still happens now.
When people talk about things like positive male role models I wonder what these are? Surely they depend on when and were you are born and what your society values? If you take a typically upper class medieval model, then it will be man as a semi pyschopathic warrior. If you were lower class then your lot was working the land and accepting the staus quo of those who fight, those who pray and those who work. In the mean time aristocratic and well to do women ran large landholdings, often the equivalent to multinational companies, with lands and holding in different parts of the country and sometimes internationally too. If you want to get a flavour of medieval life then read the Paston Letters, they're an incredible set of letters sent between members of one family over the course of a couple of centuries, they're a real eye opener.