The Parkland Horror

So many signals, so many chances for this NOT TO HAPPEN.

But.

I am shaking my head at all this talk of “children” having to “learn” to “talk” to the “different” kids now. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? “Cool kids” don’t talk to each other anymore at the lunch table, less mind take notice of the less than socially adept kid. They all are glued to their phones. The child who is IN that isolated position or, even worse, tortured at school because of his “differences,” real or imaginary, USED to be able to ESCAPE once the school day ended and the terrible gauntlet of a bus ride or lonely walk home was safely passaged. NOW, there IS no escape. The torture comes at your 24/7, reaches into that formerly safe space where frazzled, hurt feelings could be soothed and quieted to face the next day, the next round. There IS no respite for the weird, the outsider now. No healing. No chance to mature, get your feet under you and, hopefully, grow out of the terrific resentment and hate built up by being SO different in this newer world these kids exist in. It’s horribly sad and terrifically dangerous. No conversational skills, no empathy development, no coping mechanisms learned, and THAT’S for the regular “everyone gets a trophy” crowd.

All I ever see, even in a group of school girls walking down the street, is heads in their phones. No giggling, hands over their mouths secret sharing. No shrieks of silly horror between them, unless it’s about a momentary picture they share between them. Then back to the screens. With nary a word. No wonder they’re melting down in schools, mentally and sometimes murderously.

The Siamese twin elephant in the room is disintegration of parental skills enabled by/coupled with the rise of technology and the end result being foisted upon society.

There is nothing to recommend what’s coming.

categories Humanity...or the Lack Thereof, Makes Ya Barf, Morality | | datetime February 18, 2018 9:45 am

4 Responses to “The Parkland Horror”

  1. Gunslinger says:
    February 18, 2018 at 10:33 am

    It’s about time somebody said it out loud.

    Bravo.

  2. JeffS says:
    February 18, 2018 at 11:09 am

    The next generation will have many who are socially dysfunctional. This is not a good thing.

    Bravo.

  3. aelfheld says:
    February 19, 2018 at 12:42 pm

    JeffS, the next generation? From what I can see, the socially dysfunctional are here now.

  4. Kathy Kinsley says:
    February 19, 2018 at 8:03 pm

    Yes, a million times yes. God help us all.

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