The future of Gen Z

[Toji Suzuhara]

Overpopulation is what caused patriarchy to lose its game-theoretical advantage over female-mediated crypto-oligarchy. It is hilarious to me how nobody here realizes this.

What does one thing have to do with the other?

 

[Squishie PP]

What does one thing have to do with the other?

The entire reason that (agricultural) patriarchy won against hunter-gatherer societies was because patriarchies could make more humans at a faster rate, and therefore severely outnumber those in non-patriarchical cultures.
What happens when absolute birth rate is no longer a selection criteria?

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

The entire reason that (agricultural) patriarchy won against hunter-gatherer societies was because patriarchies could make more humans at a faster rate, and therefore severely outnumber those in non-patriarchical cultures.

Well, agricultural societies winning aganist hunter-gatherer ones is debatable. It is not so much so as they replaced them but rather that hunter-gatherers eventually became agricultural societies. Despite historicalle agricultural societies being larger on average than hunter-gatherer ones, nomadic societies (which for all intents and purpouses are just slightly differentiated from hunter-gatheres) usually conquered agricultural ones. And it isn't as if hunter-gatherers were bleeding heart feminists either, the women in both societies probably lived similar lives regarding their interactions and standing with the opposite sex.

What happens when absolute birth rate is no longer a selection criteria?

Absolute birth rate alone has never been a selection criteria, more like a prerequisite

 

[Squishie PP]

Absolute birth rate alone has never been a selection criteria, more like a prerequisite

Then what happens when it is no longer a prerequesite to make it as high as possible?

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Then what happens when it is no longer a prerequesite to make it as high as possible?

It drops

 

[Squishie PP]

It drops

Well yeah, but I mean what second-order effects on the organization of civilization does this have?

 

[PaleTay]

A little of column A and column B IMO. Now, keep in mind that my comparison of Boomer High School is rooted in Head of the Class reruns my dad showed me. Boomer High school seemed like a place where learning actually happened provided the students were motivated enough to apply themselves. No one was on prescriptions of Adderall or Ritalin back then. Bullying was more physically violent, but not that persistent. If a nerd grew enough of a spine, the fight was usually the end of it regardless of who wins.

If I dream about High school, it's always in the context of a nightmare. All schools--and Head of the Class itself implies it with the general student body--turned into the kind of school Joe Clark was trying to fix back then. Black schools were hit the hardest, but every school's priorities changed from places of education to places of daycare. Automatic promotion reeks of Early Development child development theory to me. We can't hold kids back, that'll mess with their peer groups. So, the curricula's standards have to drop every year and now we have adults who don't know anything and shouldn't vote. Worse, the corporate world is infiltrated by the same people who run the schools, so now working is like being in high school.

I really liked most of high school, I lived in a rich area and didn't really notice any issues until university.

I don't particularly like the mall, but a lot of life is just trying to recreate stuff we took for granted in high school, especially with fewer people having kids, there's a free community event I go to a few times a month and there's a lot of really successful and beautiful people that show up consistently because it has a good vibe.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

Boomers and genX did that, not millennials. From 50's sitcoms to highschool musical which was made by genXers who watched the breakfast club and sixteen candles a million times, movies made by boomers in the 80's. The running joke among millennials was that school was a prison. IDK if school sucked more for my generation than previous ones since I see boomers and genX still having HS reunions while nobody bothers to even organizing one for my school let alone showing up for it. Nobody my age I know misses school, myself included. The only thing I do miss sometimes is the feeling that once I'm done with that the bullshit would end.

I think giving a fuck about highschool and having it be some sort of cultural pillar is just something amerimutts cooked up.
Highschool was just another educational institution I had to go through, no different from grade school or kindergarten there was nothing special about it.