Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their confidence, then take their exam.
I don’t know if people are relying on AI and losing critical thinking, long term COVID, micro plastics in the brain, or with the lack of reward for labor everyone just stopped giving a shit.
But something has fucking happened in the last 5 years.
Way too many people are just incapable of incredibly basic thinking.
It’s like a slow slide into civilization oblivion. Everything all at once seems to be getting worse. Housing costs are up, teaching salaries are down, kids aren’t learning as fast. Food prices, obesity, falling health standards. Oversized cars, suburban sprawl, lack of investment in public transportation. A.I. constantly giving wrong answers, doubling work.
The only people I see giving a fuck these days are veterans, or others who are used to doing shit because no one else will do it. In any military organization at least 20% are pulling a Marshawn Lynch every day they put a uniform on.
Why bust your ass instead of doing the absolute bare minimum to not get yelled at?
It’s like running from a bear versuses running after a rabbit. Fear motivates you to not be slowest, pursuit of rewards motivates you to be the fastest.
There’s no reasonable expectations of rewards, were all just avoiding getting eaten
It’s not just kids…
I don’t know if people are relying on AI and losing critical thinking, long term COVID, micro plastics in the brain, or with the lack of reward for labor everyone just stopped giving a shit.
But something has fucking happened in the last 5 years.
Way too many people are just incapable of incredibly basic thinking.
It’s like a slow slide into civilization oblivion. Everything all at once seems to be getting worse. Housing costs are up, teaching salaries are down, kids aren’t learning as fast. Food prices, obesity, falling health standards. Oversized cars, suburban sprawl, lack of investment in public transportation. A.I. constantly giving wrong answers, doubling work.
I think a big factor is effort isn’t rewarded.
The only people I see giving a fuck these days are veterans, or others who are used to doing shit because no one else will do it. In any military organization at least 20% are pulling a Marshawn Lynch every day they put a uniform on.
Why bust your ass instead of doing the absolute bare minimum to not get yelled at?
It’s like running from a bear versuses running after a rabbit. Fear motivates you to not be slowest, pursuit of rewards motivates you to be the fastest.
There’s no reasonable expectations of rewards, were all just avoiding getting eaten
This is societal burn out. Everyone hates it and is done if you dont have 7 or 8 figures in the bank.
We need a fucking worldwide revolution
Even just driving, people drive like morons compared to just 5 or 10 years ago and it wasn’t exactly great 5 or 10 years ago.