(09-26-2023, 11:59 AM)Grace Wrote: I simply CANNOT understand people who cannot manage a simple conversation with someone... people who don't even understand what a conversation even is and looks like. I'm still in shock to have heard this out of the mouth of a real live person.
I noticed an article this morning talking about the same thing as it's being noticed by businesses everywhere. To quote from the article:
Quote:[British television] Channel 4’s CEO, Alex Mahon, complained that the youngest generation to enter the workforce doesn't have the skills to debate, disagree, or work alongside people with different opinions.
If this is what has occurred, that people got so far into their online bubbles that they can't deal with real life what are we to do to resolve the situation?
How do we re-integrate people into society?
If we cannot integrate them back into real life we are well and truly lost as a people I fear. However - if we can reintroduce them and integrate them into real life where it's not some imaginary utopia where everyone holds the same views - then we might have a chance in the coming storm.
What are everyone's thoughts about this topic? Are you all seeing this in your personal interactions with people?
Do you think it may also affect you?
Most of the day I'm away from other people. I'll chat with the wife. She's more than kind'a liberal, so there are topics we both know are out of bounds. I'll talk to the guys who help me out when they're here, but that's all business. Sometimes ... I'll go to church and 'listen' to what other men are thinking about these days. I like the bright little kids ... not so much the brooding ones. Seems there are more bright ones these days.
But ... the thing I noticed with conversation: it's not happening when people have their phones in their hands. I'm _almost_ well known for not talking to people who have their cell phones out. I know people who think my behavior in that regard is rude. Then their phones jingle or buzz and they can't help but rudely allow it to interrupt whatever they're doing.
Different values it seems.
I'm not so concerned with how things are going with younger folks. Every job I ever had (except for maybe one) I had to figure out how to make it happen on my own. And, every time I ever left a job somebody came along behind me and the wheels kept turning.
I saw stuff turning south when Common Core became a thing in schools. The 'how' of people being educated went over a cliff. They ought'a take these _teachers_ that are in front of a class and make them sit down and take a test. Fail ... and you're fucking fired. And Fucking Fired means you are never allowed back into the education system EVER again. What people seem to be missing out on is: not only are our teachers DUMB ... they're uneducated themselves.
My wife saw to it that both of our kids were learning what they needed to in elementary school. We paid for them to attend Korean Hagwan (private tutoring) up through high school. They both went on to college and failed at it miserably. Not because they were dumb, but because American Education is 'designed' to fail the kids at every level ... and has been that way now for at least 30 years (maybe 40). Scary thing is my son (who is almost 40 now) has given up on attaining the prestige of being named a college grad. The daughter is on her way through a PA program ... and should be good-to-go.
But, who knows?