Right now there is a loneliness epidemic throughout the world. More and more people aren’t entering relationships. Gen Z men are having significant trouble dating while there are some economic factors in the mix. From my own view and experiences combined with what I’ve read most Gen Z men are lack the social and communication skills to even enter a relationship. This has and in the future will lead to extreme issues. There’s already been a marked rise in hostility towards women by young men (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) that’s likely born out of this frustration. I would definitely say there’s been a rise in gender hostility ever since the pandemic.
Back in the 50s there was arranged marriages. All a person had to do was just show but now that’s gone because it was an unequal system and I think society missed its chance to establish something much healthier and better in its wake. Now we have people that are unable to connect with each other. We just toss people blindly into the mess that is human interaction and relationships and no one knows what to do anymore. We could be have the most fulfilling relationships humans have ever had. Think of the amount of people who would of never have entered abusive relationships had there been someone around them that showed them what love exactly is.
The way we teach is so heavily focused on teaching people how to be worker drones that we forget the human part of the person. This is why a lot of people who do extreme well in school and college fare so poorly in relationships and have higher rates of depression. We are the most educated and advanced in human history, we know psychology, we can teach this shit rather than tossing people blindly into the meat grinder.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can we just restate this as: “A lot of society’s problems could be avoided if parents actually put in effort to parent their children” ?
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a cycle of madness though, how can they teach you something they’ve never been taught?
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Through easy access to education and societal support, and a safety net.
There are many parents out there who were able to break the cycle of trauma and raise children in positive environments. But almost every single one of them talks about how they had the privilege of the support of friends, therapists, teachers, obs/gyn doctors, whatever, to help break the patterns
There’s a reason “It takes a village to raise a child” is an idea that is prevalent across so many cultures. The concept of the nuclear family was a tool to sell more real estate, and we are seeing the consequences of that societal shift today.
Zippy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Possibly. How about the reality that people are simply not interacting in person but online. I can’t believe this is not the first post.
Seriously go out to a bar, a music festival, volunteer, hell get drunk a few times and loosen up. In the 70, 80, 90 right up till 2000 this was every weekend. Hell it is not some work drone thing. That is an excuse. Work later in life is where you actually might meet some friends and from there have drinks after work and maybe that results in a random meeting with some ladies or men in your life.
School won’t teach this. Life skills need practice not exams.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 11 months ago
Rewrite it for someone who doesn't drink.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
While true, only one of those things you listed don’t require money, and tbh even volunteering is hard when you have to work 2-3 jobs to get by.
Kids and adults these days don’t have 3rd places to just relax and hang out anymore. The internet is arguably the cheapest way to hang out.
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
As a non-drinker I find it interesting that 2 out of these 3 things require the use of a drug. (Yes I know, you can order water at bars, but I doubt that was the point of that statement.)
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No amount of reasonable legislation can force parents to teach this stuff. Doing it through schools is infinitely easier.
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
It also helps provide a social standard that anyone can relate to. Seems weird to demand that parents should be the ones solely responsible to make sure their children are able to socialize properly. That just means they're main reference for socializing is just their parents.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not everything has to be legislation
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Bad parents exist. Should their kids just be doomed then?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, their kids should not be doomed. However they are unless those bad parents get better.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s not just that. I think part of it is overparenting. Part of these skills can only come from trying to practice these skills
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fwiw we are learning more and more that most of what makes an adult isn’t nurture at all. It’s almost all nature.
www.npr.org/transcripts/1193176710
Also, great parents still end up with perfectly shit children all the time.
People online just love playing the blame game on others for an individuals actions though lmfao. Poor upbringing, neglect, trauma, all of that is only one part of explaining someone’s actions. It doesn’t remove the responsibility and free will of the person commiting them lol.
npr.org/…/sometimes-good-parents-produce-bad-kids