Twelve year-old attitude, 2 year-old selfishness.
The average American is as literate as a 5th to 6th grader.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics
5th to 6th graders are 10 to 12 years old, normally.
So uh… yep, mhm, the average American is about as stupid as a 12 year old, that’s a bit on the optimistic side though.
Dude’s theory isn’t really wrong, Americans are dumb and immature as fuck, and yes the statistics exist to back that up.
Makes too much sense. Is this guy CIA?
Since 2012 twelve year olds controlled the memes, also when an explosion of boomers joined social media. We’ve been letting the kids parents the adults for 13 years now.
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better but they’re fucking stupid so their well intensions end up serving the bad guys and screwing everybody else. the story of ukrainian NGOs - literally did the dirty job for oligarch and stayed in denial until the stink became biohazard.
We already have a word for that phenomena, it’s called fascism
This is very accurate. In my twenties, I worked on myself relentlessly to try to become “grown up”. Eventually I looked around and realized that hardly anyone else was doing that, and people twice my age were still acting like children. Then they elected a man-boy King in their image.
I too passed the self-imposed ritual. It has not made me happy, but it helped me understand why I wasn’t.
damn. well said
Now that I think about it, the situation in the US really does play out like an unconscionable large version of Lord of the Flies.
This is pretty spot on.
Ralph was just trying to help organize and make everyone’s lives better. He was ignored and his life was threatened.
Simon, the insightful one, was trying to get people to see reason to quell their mania. He was murdered.
Piggy, the intelligent and compassionate one, was murdered.
Intelligent, compassionate, and a vessel for the author’s racist worldview.
Don’t mind me. I hate that book, and I hate that it’s taught in every school as if it has anything important to say. We’ve run the Lord of the Flies experiment, both accidentally and very intentionally. Every time, we’ve demonstrated that humans are better than that, and the author’s beliefs about human nature were both very incorrect and very racist.
I still resent being forced to debate my classmates about whether human nature was intrinsically “good” or “evil,” directly after reading that book, even though it was 25 years ago. I was the lone voice on the side of “good,” for lack of a “good and evil are subjective terms, but nonetheless humans are empathetic and this book is horseshit” team. I got dogpiled by 20 some other students for about 45 minutes. Fuck you Ms. Brown, and fuck you William Golding. That book has nothing important to say other than exposing its author’s racist insecurities.
This lines up with what I’ve been shouting into the void whenever I read a news article. “Where are the fucking adults?!”
You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.
What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.
when you reach the milestone of adulthood and take a peek behind the veil of responsibility…
… maybe Larry Niven was right in Ringworld, Humanity’s only defining trait is not our intelligence, our compassion, or our strength of will, but simply the luck of the few.
Twelve year olds are more advanced, make it 8.
Sounds like something a president on a list would say.
He does keep drawing the line at 12…
It’s a nation filled to the brim with children trapped in adult bodies.
This is not an opinion because I’m perpetually online. I go outside and they’re there too. Literally everywhere.
It’s actually worse outside, which is why I am terminally online.
True. When I was young I thought why don’t we use the military domestically. Yeah it doesn’t work.
It actually works really well, if your goal is fascism.
Already a term for it… maybe they weren’t aware of it on account of being twelve.
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety while being a short step away from bemoaning “degenerated modernity” to me.
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety
Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification
It is not as though the tools to become a well rounded adult have been denied. In fact it’s arguable that with the internet those tools are more accessible than ever. It’s a personal choice to give in to the easy solutions and not seek out broader knowledge and understanding
