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Are teenage boys in the US becoming more conservative – or more dangerously apathetic?
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Yea people just feel hopeless, and I don't blame them when the system is literally rigged.
Self interest rules here. It is in most young peoples interest to just say fuck it, for their own well being and mental health, head in the sand and try to survive. What else to do? Corporate profit rules, and slavery is written into the constitution.
Through this same path of apathy I was able to find myself, and my own path forward, and here I am posting ramblings on lemmy. But I'm glad I'm not growing up today quite frankly, and im glad i had the people and friends I did. I was raised on punk rock lol.
If there is an uptick in conservatism, and or apathy it's in large part to the sense of self depreciation that's instilled in us, as well as that ever present streak of contrarianism in youth coupled with the disaster that is our education system and unhealthy use of social media.
Polarization and Apathy are a feature of the political and economic system it would seem to me. But I'm just a self depreciating uneducated idiot, with my own fair share of apathy.
It's hopelessness mixed with growing up being told they are bad and the reason the world is bad. I feel genuinely bad for boys growing up now. They don't have the benefits older men had but they get all of the blame and negativity. I don't blame them for feeling at least like the right might care about them more because the right doesn't contain all of the male hate and misandry they face on a daily basis, even if supporting the right is probably causing them more harm in the long run.