So what you’re saying is, the industrial revolution and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race?
Not a disaster.
Just led to unpredictable social consequences due to a fundamental shift in how long established roles, systems of interaction and key cores of how society has operated have been suddenly replaced or not followed in the same way.
Ok, put it this way. Formal outside of the home/immediate village schooling is a pretty recent thing for most working class people.
As it has however existed for wealthy or higher class people, an inadvertent social experiment in whether this is good or bad for children was conducted on a sample group of children for thousands of years.
As soon as society got to a point in which working people could afford for their children to be educated in this manner, it’s become widespread to the point that almost 100% of people in the west attend a school for a large portion of their childhood.
There are some outliers who don’t benefit from being in school, but the vast majority gain a lot from this situation.
Even if they are not successful in exams and study, they still develop life skills through socialization they would not have received if they were only ever educated and socialized in a family or very small community.
The benefits of school had been proven by the wealthy folks, so while this may have been something of a shift when legal requirements to attend school were introduced, society had already established teachers and a good understanding on how to educate.
This didn’t especially lead to issues with children which couldn’t be predicted and even wealthy children would have misbehaved or struggled in school prior to this.
As such, the examples of people not suited to school are handled, but the majority got the idea.
This is the only time in which people have had access to nearly everything they want almost instantly.
Even the wealthy have never had it this good, and such in terms of gratification, combined with a level of fast moving technology in which things thought impossible or in far off sci fi futures, growing up in such a world is so new, that there is no historical comparison or experience to judge it by or base it on.
The closest I can think of would be situations with emperors and royals ascending to the throne young and having so much unquestioned power that they indulged every whim.
That was bad enough when the situation was one or two at a time, but now there is this generation which this kind of expectation seems normal, a society confused but willing to normalize it due to a historical separation from witnessing normalized discrimination, and an incredibly individualist society.
I don’t think this is the end or downfall, I think this is a time which society needs to truly adapt to the new reality, but I do think that the spoiled brats and enablers in this “you can be whatever you want to be” focused internet age need to be curbed and the next generations given a more appropriate approach and upbringing.
Perhaps it’s not a war we need, just a lowering of expectation and standard of self fulfillment.
perfetto 
