My son's time at school was characterised more by the fact that children were not allowed to fight or brawl in the school playground. Sitting still in the classroom and the lack of understanding that children do not resolve their conflicts verbally but rather physically has, in my opinion, led to children being treated like adults, which they are not. Chair circles and class councils, as if you were doing group therapy sessions, that's more my impression of school life.
Over-pedagogising and psychologising what is actually quite normal child behaviour. Adults in education systems look for problems where there are none. Which leads to children and teenagers who grow up in a purely verbal world and have to please the politically correct adults who know little about children themselves because we live in family-poor societies.
Even in my own generation, the Freudian view that all problems came from the parents was very popular. As a result, many of my generation became unable to have relationships, never got married and never made long-term commitments. Some of them live to a ripe old age with the illusion that their parents were responsible for their miserable lives; still complaining. I'm not surprised that young people freak out under this social and political pressure and tend towards violence. They have no reliable male or female role models.
Nevertheless, I would say that violence is not increasing in numbers (at least not in my location), but that the prevalence of extreme examples has increased due to the incredible use of internet media and the film device in mobile phones; something you mention here and I find important.
Since the physical and local neighbourhood of young people in cities is primarily non-existent and parents and relatives have not been role models for a long time, it is media figures and characters that the whole world is talking about. Celebrities, politicians and other public figures. Individuals also strive to become public figures, as they do not see private and local relationships that offer them long-term support. People don't mainly talk about their neighbours or the local shopkeeper or the postman or the brother-in-law etc. because these people either don't exist or move away (fluctuation). The family, as a coherent unit, with mother, father and grandparents as the authoritative knowledgeable figures, is not sufficiently present in modern societies. If people were gossiping about you forty or fifty years ago, then at some point it would reach you and you could think about whether something could be done to improve your behaviour. Today (at least in cities), nobody gossips any more and so it is at least explainable to me that this need somehow tries to break through elsewhere ("(anti-)social media").
But I would like to point out that what seems to be extreme can seem that way because we mistake media for reality. The teenagers and young people I knew and know are rather uninterested in becoming mature people. They fall for the virtue signals in one place and don't give a f... in others. It was the same with us, I am afraid. "Get a career", they are being told, not "create stable relationships" (family or company). Though, I cherish some hope for future peoples since the madness must come to an end.
Sorry, this topic arouses me. So it got long.
Greetings from Germany.
What an absolutely epic response. That was better than my blog write-up. Gonna head over to your page now and see if you have similar insights in your posts!
Thanks, man. I think you'll find mirrored in my postings what I had written here. Since I am not very active it's "old" what you may find over there. Still, I'd appreciate your response if you have anything to say. I like your style of writing and telling from real life happenings and your location.
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