Dear Friends,
It seems to me, many young people today are literally incapable of working. Not because of an innate defect in them, but at great cost to the taxpayer, they’ve been trained to be ineffectual. My experience of young men today is that they are willing, but are too fragile, unskilled and afraid to be handy. This is why many employers today shudder at cutting off illegal aliens. They claim they can’t hire Americans to work. Young people in the US and I suspect Europe as well, have been hobbled by culture, the education system and their leaders. The education system doesn’t teach reading, writing, math, history and critical thinking. Instead it indoctrinates a political ideology of indolence, the culture is corrosive of maturity as our leaders set an example of ineptitude and corruption.
The public education system in the US for decades, has been geared to graduating people who know everything about gender studies, but nothing whatsoever meaningful about history. Not one high school graduate I have ever spoken to has known about Mao’s famines during the Great Leap Forward, Stalin’s Ukrainian famine, or even Pol Pot’s Killing Fields. They know about Antebellum slavery but nothing about the broader history of slavery. So young people fall into the same traps people have for centuries… traps which are clearly avoidable, if only our education system taught about them. These traps create a mindset of entitlement. They think communism only delivers equality. Having no concept of the reality of it. So there’s no need to work. As if the roof can support the foundation.
Our culture is corrosive of maturity. The immature, fragile and quick to violence are our cultural icons today. Gang members epitomize the ideals of young men. Why would I say this? Look at how they dress. What are the ethics of a gang member? The same as any mafia, rent seeking as a way of life. Which means lying, cheating and stealing. Whether they understand this consciously, they incorporate this mentality unconsciously. I know employers who have told me, American kids today fly into a rage at the least provocation, break things and quit. Adding that most don’t make it past day one. Which is what one would expect of people who’ve been inculcated into the gang mindset. Whether or not they realize it themselves. It’s hard to mature someone who’s been taught to be an eternal child.
Our elites lead by example, and their example is corruption, luxury and egoism. The nature of an ivory tower is that it resonates. It’s an echo chamber. So people who live in one all think alike. The most absurd ideas get amplified in the echo chamber, drowning out any objections from the crowd below. Which means that elites become more insane the taller and more closed their ivory tower. Young people who look up see judges who pervert the law, politicians who get rich through insider trading, doctors who make people sick instead of well, and actors bed hopping. Meanwhile, they’re steered away from examples of hard working people who have families, lives and careers. Moreover, achievement through merit is vilified. With examples such as these, how could kids follow the elite to prosperity?
Young people have some responsibility themselves though. True, they’ve been carefully taught to be inept, at great taxpayer expense, but we all have within us the ability to grow, mature and learn. Those who’ve been hobbled by the public education system and our corrosive culture and who have followed our corrupt leaders, can become skilled, hard working and ethical. Eliminating the “need” for unlimited illegal immigration. We can change this paradigm. Push for education vouchers, read Horatio Alger stories to kids, turn off the culture, limit access to corrupting influences, and lead by example. Show young people what hard, skilled and entrepreneurial work accomplishes so they want to emulate and do it themselves. We all have a responsibility to fix this situation. So roll up your sleeves…
Sincerely,
John Pepin
