And then we have this.
Hopefully these students are not trying for a degree in Astrophysics or Medicine.
Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said.
www.cnn.com
Or any responsible position.
It seems many members of the younger generations have so little regard for their lives (and by extension human lives, period) that they’ll congregate for what amounts to Russian roulette.
I see this as a result of five decades of kinder, gentler, monomanically inclusive parenting and social leadership, and the correctness dogma that grew from it.
I wonder when our societies (not just this nation) will wake up to the fact that this leads to the sort of psychic malnutrition that the mentioned phenomenon illustrates.
Many of our children’s souls are apparently starving.
What to do about it, I don’t know. I fear it will require some sort of revolution driven by our educators, psychology pros and anthropologists, and probably journalists too.
In the past, religion played a large role here. I do not want an outcome that’ll blur the firewall between religion and government. That way lie sharia and inquisition, in stark contrast to the quest for truth and goodness.
/rant