Why the Oxford Union speech cut through | Konstantin Kisin
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- In this clip, John and Konstantin Kisin reflect on Kisin's recent viral contribution to the "has woke culture gone too far" oxford union debate. Kisin argues that a problem we see in the modern era is that 'adults are afraid of children' and that what set his speech apart was that he was willing to engage with young people on their terms. He did this through directly engaging with climate chage in a way that not only exposed the flaws of the dooms day narrative, but in a way that was both humorous and entertaining.
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Konstantin Kisin is a writer, social commentator, co-host of TRIGGERnometry and comedian. He is a regular on British and American TV and radio shows including Question Time, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Daily Politics, LBC Cross Question, Tucker Carlson, the Megyn Kelly Show and many others.
Konstantin has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Tablet Magazine, Quillette, Standpoint as well as his first book, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West.
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It is a joy to listen to a conversation in which no-one interrupts: people can 'find the words' in a pause, without the other trying to interject; in which the 'interviewer' holds back from putting his POV until a convenient time when the interviewee is finished making a pertinent point.
I hadn't thought of this but now that I do it is one major reason I like Mr Anderson's channel so much.
Fortunately, I'm old enough to remember the time before, but British news interviews have become pointless and borderline unwatchable, since Jeremy Paxman's "Did you threaten to overrule him?" back in the 90s. I'm sure that plenty of journalists could learn a thing or two here.
Children need parents not a friend, friendship comes later in parenting.
I see it that way: You're going to have many friends in your lifetime, but you only have one Mum/Dad. I'd never call my Mum by her first name and act as if she's some random friend from highschool. I think that's also a reason why so many Teens are lost and confused. They don't have parents who guide them, they have Stacy and John, their 40-year-old friends who just happen to be related to them.
Every kid that was raised by a 'friend' parent that I know, has resulted in an immature, narcissistic, and unpleasant adult.
They need both id say
I grew up with a tyrant and it just made me want nothing to do with him
I mean it can’t be on or the other.
@@gerbill13 I'm not saying your parent should be a tyrant or anything like that. It's just that parents should act like adults, like real parents, and guide their children through life. I have a very good relationship with my Mom, but she isn't 'one of my friends', she's my mother.
Chairman Mao gave power to the young as he recognized their readiness to absorb propaganda and recite it.
There are many parallels. The more I read about the Cultural Revolution the more concerned I am.
Yep
@@mogznwazas you should be. Isn’t it interesting that we have thousands of films about 1940’s Germany, but none about that dark period that killed far more people?
yes..I was there in 1984 just as it was opening up..the scars left by the red guards were clearly visible everywhere...a civilizational tragedy of the most massive scale.
Well, these people want life to get so miserable that when they finally have enough they will be begging for a social credit score and surveillance system (barcode everyone) just to walk safely. The left, POC, LGBTQ, disabled etc are all deep into it for their own personal gains. They will get more fierce and authoritarian even with each other as they say the left eat their own. They talk about tolerance and laugh when anyone they oppose suffers immensely. They earn good money from made up jobs in corporate structures at big companies, policing employees’ speech and implementing radical ideas (such as China and North Korea does). The tool kit is UN’s SDG’s, using DEI as the social branch, Just Stop Oil as the Climate branch, etc.
When the fear is great enough, Slavery 2.0 starts and everyone will be reduced to a life of communism. EVERYONE, even the far leftists who they manipulated into doing these things. They are Hitlers SS Youth Division, told they are special, more, and better than the straight white males they seek to bring to heel. Except this time, they will not live to 80, 90 or 100 before being caught in South America, Africa etc, and prosecuted, they will be bound by the same mechanisms of control which they ushered on those who tried to rebel against woke tyranny. I hope the LGBT crowd can go back to making their life journey about more than who they sleep with. And that they speak loudest against this Kabal who use them merely as means to an end, domination of humanity and nothing less.
As a former teacher, I can totally agree with that - hence so many teachers are quitting.
I am in my mid -60's and look back with some embarrassment at the things I said and believed to be true when I was in my 20's. The difference in those days was that I had no way of having those views constantly reinforced by political and social movements with specific agendas. This is an unforeseen consequence of the digital communication age; once again we accept scientific advance as progress without understanding that this is just a myth and that the frailty of human nature can never be changed.
Exactly. I was born in the sixties. Growing up, you were treated like an ignorant piece of s***. It was up to you to learn something, develop your arguments and the necessary communication skills to convince people otherwise. You were forced to take part in the the adult world by contributing something.
We can change it. 💯
Yeah that's it alright.
This is exactly why the voting age should be raised to 25, at least.
And there are powers who want it lowered to 16.
I'm not sure that works. Ah, actually, I'm sure that wouldn't work. Older people may sometimes be more sensible than younger but too frequently this isn't the case.
@@jensphiliphohmann1876maybe... right to vote after your taxes cross the "tax-free threshold"?
That way the bludgers and dodgers don't muddy the water with their weak-minded trash ideas?
No, we need to raise children to become and act like adults at age 18. We can't continue to delay adulthood.
voting age and university should be denied until there has been employment in the "real world" first.
They're exposed to high brow ideas without having experienced "reality".
University should be for adults. Not children.
Great admiration. I'm 79, ironically much of what you point out was inculcated to me in childhood. Mistake has been to generate growing dismissal of older people's experiences. No, they're not all right, but they need to be included as a background for the young to come up with a balanced outlook & to realise that not every problem has a solution: particularly when that solution is mindless violence & the negation of all that humanity has experienced in previous centuries.
Konstantin is a breath of fresh air!!
„All those things people care about are going to go into the Dustbin of history along with our civilization“
Profound words indeed.
It's a wake up call for sure.
It’s unfortunately very sad that an educated balanced conversation like this is no longer possible in the so called informed seats of great learning that were once our world renowned universities.. the fact that this gentleman was protested against and his words were met with hysteria and derision says so much about how far removed from the realities of truth and everyday life our mollycoddled and blind students have become. That in of itself is frightening when we all know that our future ruling class will as usual be picked from amongst their ranks, once more to take their place , removed from the cruel realities of life in their gilded existence.
It's the age , they don't want to listen because they ghinj they got it figured out. But what are the excuses of the adults running the place? Woke and fearful.
Got a massive amount of regard for Konstantin. He's eloquent, focused and balanced on the matters under discussion. A decent talent, imo 👌
What I really loved about the Oxford speech besides that he talked to them like humans instead of talking down to them, is that he offered a way out, a method to help.
The authority of age, maturity and experience has been relentlessly downgraded. Children who have no experience of this grow up feeling very insecure which leads to all manners of mental health issues, particularly anxiety. The parents bringing children up today have came through a childhood without the authority of parenthood to guide them. Consequently their approach to child rearing is whatever the child wants, consult the child first. Which in the end is - who do you want to be with, mummy or daddy. My point here is can we even imagine what that level of decision making does to a young child. The child becomes a weak insecure adult or a narcissist that way over estimates themselves.
Didn't you know? Age, maturity, and experience are products of the patriarchy that is holding the world back from being perfect.
Only two days ago my stepsons 2 year old daughter slapped his face in defiance her grandmother said no! Don't do that and the stepson said"we dont say NO to her we just divert her mind to an alternative action!
I was dumbfounded 🥺
So now she learns: it is ok to slap daddy in the face, because then I get to do something nice afterwards.
Good strategy. Will bring much joy and happiness to society in 20 years from now.
(Last 2 sentences are meant sarcasticly. Not everybody can tell that from just written words)
This has been building up for 70 years. Remember Benjamin Spock? New first time parents were overwhelmed after WW2 and were looking for an easy way to parent. There is no easy way to parent. Have you tried slapping some sense into your stepson? It sounds like he rolls over and bares his throat if he's disciplined so it ought to work.
True. I was at Downey library, father told his son why you dressed as a fool. The kid started to cry and his mother said, he wants to be a women. He was told to leave 😅😅😅😅
John Anderson is doing great things with these interviews. One of the best channels around. Konstantin is a great speaker and he genuinely is open for debate and rational counter arguments. Great stuff here, barvo gents. 🍻
Love this interview …. Watch the whole video
Well worth your time …
Are we awake yet🕊
Hey students! Get a job, marry a woman that loves you, buy a house, have some kids, experience real joy!
Buy a house with what? While mired in debts of 10K +? That’s what the corporate university system leaves you with nowadays. As for getting a job I’d advise to go self employed rather than work for any of the now woke captured companies or organisations. Any company that expects you to do unconscious bias training or include pronouns in emails or such I would avoid like the plague.
Hi Rick. Because I did all the above, I was in a position to help out my sons with a deposit on a house for them. I agree totally with what you're saying tho. I'm right about the wife and kids bit though aren't I ? It makes your heart grow bigger.
@@NewSpirituality My brother was a software engineer. The greatest thing he ever did was become self-employed. He worked contracts of 6 months to 1 year. He loved it, because he no longer had to deal with the phoney drama of office politics, nor did he have to concern himself too much with political correctness. Sometimes he renewed a contract, other times he would move on, especially if he had to deal with some wacko at the job site. My brother died 5 years ago, but in the last 2 years of his life he was making approximately $200k a year. It took him about 15 years to get up to that level of income, but it was worth it.
@@NewSpirituality Yes, you say it like it is. The universities are nothing but an indoctrination camp and they want every student in there. It is also a business model designed to enforce students to take up a degree and laden them with debt so they work for these corporations/organizations to pay it off whilst being indoctrinated into their system of core mission and values.
Although, pursuing a degree can be a lucrative experience with many prospects in the future. It's essential to weigh the advantages and disadvantages and make an informed decision on whether or not to pursue higher education. Ultimately, it's up to each individual to determine which path is best for them.
I've been leaving comments for YEARS concentrating of my disgust and outrage over this issue. I kept sharing my observation very early on in the era of the 'culture wars', hoping to have some engagement with people who also noticed the utterly shameful and bizarre phenomenon that is adults kowtowing to college kids and teenagers, letting THEM rule the roost BY FORCE. I'd get little to no response and see nothing in the comment sections either from people also disturbed by this entirely new and disturbing state of altered dynamics. Didn't people realise how important it was to notice and discuss this humiliating, destructive spectacle?! It's at the core, psychologically, of all this stuff. To understand WHY is to get closer to solving and ending certain toxic byways. I'm so pleased to be coming across more and more people who are expressing their take on the 'kids bossing adults around' circus. I'm embarrassed just thinking about it. How did this happen?!
It happened because they allowed it, and thanks to the teachings and indoctrinations in our schools along with this culture of social media and cancel.
I was a kid in the 1960s and we did all this too. The difference is that there were still some adults left in the world back then but my generation never did grow up so there aren't many adults now. They identified with their kids instead of parenting them - they wanted to be the groovy parents.
Notice how having two people talk without screaming is so noteworthy in the comments. Think about how many parental conversations ended in screaming and divorce. These kids were raised with that as a background - bad behavior has been normal for generations.
In the 80s I did private tuition, often of children. Back then no adult worried about leaving their kid with me. Now I'd be the worried one and would simply refuse to take pupils under 21. Lucky I no longer need to.
I’m very impressed with John Anderson’s level-headed style.
I think it's also that Konstantin has caché value and the students could relate to him. He's from an undeniably hard country (tougher than the upper middle class shires the students come from), is young, quick-minded, credible, knowledgeable and a successful podcaster - something they can respect. He wasn't an old white-haired father figure appearing to lecture them.
If they object to "being lectured to" and only respond to (young-ish) people on their own level, they shouldn't be at university at all.
God forbid their reluctance to listen to their elders pass on wisdom be thrown in their face…
What made the old white haired father figure an image of scorn I wonder.
"Adults are afraid of children"--totally agree. Maybe it comes from Universities concerned about their bottom line, so they are "afraid" to lose enrollment. And that attitude affects everything
One of the culprits, in my view, was the enormous popularity and appeal of the TV series _The Courtship of Eddie's Father._ The lyrics of the theme song say it all: the kid considers his father his best friend.
Hey John, great young guy there (I'm calling 40 yr olds young - a clue to my age). I have adopted a similar approach to the younger crowd. No insulting them, soft speech, let them yell at me and attempt to calm them down after they get it out of their system.
Then present stats, links, that back up my points, with a plea of challenge to just take a look.
I have worked with these people and on their properties and gotten to know their parents who are mostly a bit younger than I am, their spouses or girlfriends and some of the kids they now have. The group is mostly early to mid forties. They all have taken me as a sort of father figure giving some wise counsel. But mostly my demeanor as 50 years of committed Christianity have softened my unruly behavior, and very nice carpentry work and athleticisim in endurance sports has has opened the doors to talk to them about politics and occasionally the gospel.
Presently they consider me a "good guy" but "unenlightened". One guy was yelling at me when I broached the subject of the UK teens abuse of 4 decades while working with him on his income property. After he calmed down, he gave me a hug and said, "We all luv ya Don but you have to stop watching Fox."
I've noticed they and even folks my age both "Trump me" or "Fox me" and immediately close their minds to any conversation at that point.
I've been gathering info, links, reading for about 7 years now and will prepare some bullet papers to hand out on various subjects. I'm also going to try and get it to some of the terrific, Senators and Congressmen and women we have now in the R party and even some R governors here in the states.
Have to keep trying - Can't Not Try.
Sorry about the long rant - will watch his speech Oxford.
Thanks much John - Luv the Aussies
I find it fascinating that some don't want to hear anything positive about climate change, like, it's not as catastrophic as you've been told, like covid etc. It's like they are addicted to the negativity?
Yes I’m seeing the same thing.
Who is “they”?
Not addicted, I would say indoctrinated
@@Theactivepsychos those that push climate change hysteria and will not listen to any reason or alternative. This happened with covid when any positive options/treatments were being spoken about, 'they' wanted it shut down. Why wouldn't people want to hear there may be solutions?
@@jojo18eighteen69 ok so I’m not sure who you are referring to. Do you mean someone like David Attenborough? James Hansen? David Marshall? Tim Palmer? And who would you say could reason these pretty much experts in their fields out if their research positions?
The key here is that they really do believe they know and understand AND have the solutions to everything when nothing could be further from the truth. KK is right, we were all guilty of that. It's only when we act on it (which they are doing more so these days) that it becomes a problem.
"the old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything" Oscar Wilde.
Humans are humans, the difference today in that social media is mostly amplifying the young as they use it more.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” ~ G. Michael Hopf
And when weak men create a time that's hard enough, the culture disappears and is replaced by another.
In the Middle Ages, court jesters were the only people who could speak truth to power while keeping a head on their shoulders. We seem to be repeating the trope, with comedians being the only ones describibg reality. Kisin can be funny but he's a serious man. there are others in the same role.
The day I listen to a Child having a tantrum, from an elitist wealthy background, is the day I will give up on life! I have a long way to go, before I give up! I believe the majority of the general public stand by me on this!
Why the reverse snobbery?
@@gareth2736 Not reverse snobbery, I'm from a wealthy background, and are of serious financial standing! I am stating facts of how my kind can be so arrogant and privilliged, and yet not in any way have an understanding of the real world and how it actually functions.
It might be 50% but it might be a lot less.
I think there is another issue with the current younger generation. Public education and popular culture have aggressively demeaned and mocked religious belief which provides a much deeper sense of purpose and meaning. But that is a natural desire in the human person. The current culture has taken that natural desire and cleverly replaced that drive for meaning and purpose with ... Global warming, rich vs. Poor, ocean pollution, etc etc so it's no wonder these ideas have a lot of passion in young people. We took away their steak and they are desperately trying to fill up on kale chips.
LOL, "We took away their steak and they are desperately trying to fill up on kale chips".
They find the nourishment of their new religion to be just as good as the first fanatics of the old religions did.
2% for one country isn't small nor big, but I agree the woke lunatics' solutions are insane!
He spoke to them not as opponents, but as fellow humans. That’s a perspective we should all try to maintain.
You have to be sure of your own ability to reason and judge to do it. That is rare.
Pediatric audiologist here: I see it constantly everyday, where the kids are the boss
You know who else was afraid of their children? The Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge. They had this weird, manufactured reverence for children as the answer to the future but the family unit had to be utterly destroyed in order to make it work.
When you're trying to destroy a culture, the young are always the easiest to employ.
Ultimately this perspective is inevitably true!
However, not providing a solution to the woke insanity is culpability.
You must fight fire with fire, provide a meaningful deterrent or die knowing you did nothing.
Speaking out and voting for the correct opposition candidates in elections is a start.
'Correct opposition candidates?' Who would that EVER be? ALL politicians either are corrupt or become corrupt within 6 months of attaining power. The whole idea of voting as a way of influencing your rulers is preposterous.
The great and wise "Thomas Sowell" applies.....there are no solutions only trade-offs,
@@loveamerica2828 Like we did a lot of trade off with National Socialist Germany? No, we killed them!
Did we trade off against Japan? No we killed them!
A common and successful thread here, but it was only used as a last resort!
Get the deterrent out there and start trading off!
The better question is: what are we willing to tradeoff to stop the woke insanity?
@@crunchyman5330 i would submit what are we willing to trade off to NOT stop the woke insanity.....freedom, free speech, rights, our childrens education etc.etc.etc.????
Adults afraid of children?
Orwell. 1984.
Thank you both .
I’ve noticed that too. We have a child and emotion-led society. It’s a flip around from the thought/facts/duty/children seen and not heard society of the Victorians. Like a pendulum swinging……
They’re actually adults that are at university. However, they’re behaving like children.
Of course, there are several factors that have brought us to where we are now. But a key component is definitely the internet and the new way and to what extent we consume media. Manipulating people on a large scale has never been so easy. Healthy individual thinking has been abolished and replaced by parroting, mob mentality and dangerous naivety. Now a few determine what many are allowed to think and say, something like this has never gone well in history. Suddenly everything becomes morally inflated and we are constantly in the limelight and judged by others on a global scale. Everyone now has an opinion on everything and makes things their problem that don't really concern them at all. Why am I responsible for the whole world? They tell us this nonsense to control us. The best thing would actually be to turn off the internet right away. It has brought many benefits, but it has also turned the world into a madhouse.
Let's hope young generations are watching these discussions.
I am scared of children. I'm scared that I'll show them bad habits. I'm scared I'll accidentally hurt them. I'm scared for their future in this mad world. But my child gives me purpose. Gives me life....but he's right about the younger gen Z
Well said.. I agree
God bless buddy ❤
What children in colleges and universities 😂. Sooo respectful 😅
I like Konstantin, but did his speech actually "cut through" to anyone? Was anyone persuaded by it? The only people I saw sharing it or talking about it were people who already agreed with him.
I love that picture on the wall. 😂
Let them watch the TV and this may be the result.
Excellent men.
The Anderson Tartan. Haven't seen that for a while.
Accurate. So many examples, Twitter is the most obvious but I also see it at the grocery.
When the adults are removed you have "Lord Of The Flies" The different ages balance each other out.
Or children have not been taught respect of their elders. Now these children are tricenarian for example.
Children want boundaries. We're doing them a great disservice by letting them do, think and say whatever they want without challenge
good to hear reason is still able to change minds
He did it with humor as well. If you can make your opponents laugh and your supporters laugh, at the same jokes, you create a subconscious commonality with the two groups. That speech changed the whole global narrative.
Gosh, when I think how arrogant and all knowing I was with 20 years of age, I really feel ashamed today at age 54. To imagine I had been invited 30 years ago to TV shows to tell Society how it should behave, instead of going to University and studying economics and learning so many things, it's just insane. Alas, this is exactly what is happening today, making children and adolescents to be great leaders.
Read Orwell's "1984". They were afraid of children too.
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Kids use to be kept in line by a cuff round the ear from the lioness, the parent siding with the teacher meting out discipline for bad behaviour and by fathers, and father figures. The local hard man had a code and was respected - the youngsters did NOT cheek them!
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“As generations go by the pejorations rise.”
:Grammar>Contract>Word.
Many young people are not interested in history or their own legacies. They have been raised entitled. They are in for a load of heartache.😫
Balderdash, people with children will never go hungry.
Kisin is a boss
My generation (silent) believed that "children should be seen and not heard."
That's called neglect.
@@rehtaeh spare the rod and spoil the child
@@rleslie66 You're mistaken if you take that to mean that it is okay to assault a child.
Who else wants to watch a teenager of age
People with knowledge and intellect don't often shout and interrupt. Those who have no thoughts, or much thinking capacity , shout, because they only have mantras which they can't allow to be questioned. They have no knowledge behind their flimsy statements. This frightens them, so they go on the attack. I pity them as much their rudeness annoys me. They persuade NOBODY.
If they can destroy you, they don't have to persuade you.
“The story of Jacob who stole the blessing from Esau reveals something of the dynamic of blessing defined above. It is difficult for us to see how Jacob is blessed after such a disgusting display of conniving and deceit. Truly, Esau seems to get a raw deal, but powerfully implied in the story is a major flaw in him. Esau’s flippant attitude about the blessing reveals a major breakdown of blessing. He wanted to survive and thrive but without binding himself to his father. He wanted blessing without strings attached.” [Keith Ruckhaus, As Though We Were Dreaming: A Commentary on the Songs of Ascents for Lent (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2013), 76.]
Children now days are strict and parents are obedient !
There must be a generation of parents who have obeyed their whole lives, first as kids their parents and then as parents their kids.
In the present situation, "The enemy" can teach us more then our peers/ like-minded people/ friends/ etcetera, because most people are living in a bubble and get fed only what they already think or believe.
they are!!!!!!!!!
You do not call out how the appeal to.child safety has become the cultural cudgle
This current generation is being led astray towards a Children of the Corn future
It's worse than that. Adults today are childish themselves. They don't carry themselves with any authority for fear of offending anyone. They're afraid of EVERYTHING. They act like children.
We haven't been training people to become adults for 70 years. Children in adult bodies are prey to their emotions and easier to manipulate.
You can't discuss topics and disagreements with people who have no respect for anyone who disagrees with them and refuse to have a discussion.
Konstantin K. is an ordinary Bloke-Ok,a bit more Thoughtful. So WHY are more Ordinary People SO Unable to Think TOO? He's JUST an Ordinary bloke-like the rest of us,yet we "other ordinaries" can-Not be As similarly Rational...Why?
The internet. It's a trap. An effective one.
Because he's exceptionally focused and well-read. He isn't distracted by peripheral noise or trivia.
The guardian recently stated that the Polar Ice, as according to the, erm, "experts", will be gone in 5 years; they said this 2 years ago, 4 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 14 years ago........ current state of the Arctic Sea ice is 5.6 MILLION SQUARE MILES.......... penny dropped yet....???
A parent a teacher the police in a lot of cases the young havd no respect for because the adults are soft.
I have an other theory, we are grown children, not grown adult. Most people I believe are stuck in their mind at 16/18~ years old. They don't want/are scared of children, think emotionaly, don't want to work hard but want big money, etc.
They believe in magic, yes.
Pity we can’t have men of his intellect running our country 🇬🇧
John Anderson come Home 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I'm not certain it's precisely that adults are afraid of children. In my estimation, more accurately it's that adults are afraid of telling their children no, when that is the absolutely necessary, kind, mature, useful, beneficial thing to do.
Thanks John. I don't suppose you're thinking of coming out of retirement, by any chance? ❤
Will common sense ever catch on?
It hasn't in the last several thousand years so, no.
The State has overpowered the family unit. We need to reassert family power. Defund public education to start.
"As for my people, women rule over them, and children are their oppressors."
One of the things that's affecting the Russo Ukrainian war right now is relatively recent history having to do with collectivization and also with Ukrainian complicity with the Nazis. The remembrances of the Hall of a door in the Holocaust or two reasons why this particular conflict is so bitter
I knew Russians, not Ukrainians, who worked with the Nazis and left with them when they retreated. They hated the Communists that much and, even though they were untermenschen to the Germans, they were treated better by the Nazis than they were by their own government. This is memory to them - not history.
The history of Eastern Europe is extremely complicated and not very well known or understood in the West. We make a lot of simplifying assumptions based in our culture that don't match with their reality and our "experts" look like fools to them. They try to make things simple and clear so we'll understand them and we dismiss it as lies and paranoia because it isn't what we want to hear.
People forget on both "sides" that life is about balance not domination. We can't let the bad outweigh the good, but we also can't let the good outweigh the bad. Unpopular idea but it's true. We have to let some things slide sometimes. Lesser minds or those blinded by TOO MUCH empathy can't grasp this and would say I'm a bad or evil person for saying this, but I'm not, and it's a universal fact.
Stephen KingOriginal work: Children of the Corn (1977)
I don't dusagree, but when did adults at university become "children"?
I was one of those arrogant, know-it -all 20somethings, but I was always happy to at least hear the opposing view. Even then, I knew that if I couldn't give a compelling argument, I might not be right.
My colleague, an economics teacher in Australia (for context) in addressing young multicultural students, that their presence was clearly part of rescinding the White Australia Policy. She taught this concept as historical. These students then declared this was made up. A learner who cannot understand concepts is completely unfunctional for society and more and more of our youth appear to be in this category!
I need to take this advice more often too, don' tjust mock (save that for politicians and their mouthpiece organs in media and hollywood) but try to honestly share your opinion and state at outset what our common goals are (where they exist...some things like cutting up "trans" kids before puberty I cannot get to common ground with such an advocate).
Right question! There's not even a common language with which to make a deal. We share words but we don't share a dictionary. We used to be able to agree on denotations and differ on connotations but those conditions are gone. As Hayakawa said, if you want to stop any progress in negotiations, start an argument about definitions. Now, we can only argue about definitions.
Young people have the excuse by being young and somewhat naive .
What about the much older idiots who have no such excuse !!
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel said that chaos is an essential attribute of war. He said that one reason the American army is good at war is that chaos is part of everyday life in the American army.
Our disorder is a source of strength because it gives us practice adapting to and overcoming the challenges we face.
How about thinking on terms of how much waste we generate per person and how much import of manufactured goods are flown from China and india and other third world countries? That will actually gibe you the context of the green house gas consumption per individual ...
The people telling you climate change is real are the same people telling you the Wuhan lab leak was a conspiracy.
Nope. At that age, it's about reward. So teachers reward thinking a certain way with good grades. Good grades are associated with success. Then the students will think that way to be successful. The reason why young people think they know everything is because of the positive feedback they get. If Konstantine thinks back, he'll remember the reason why he stopped thinking that way, was because of the negative feedback he got.
Your black & white world must be very comforting. Black, white, or grey the world exists in living colors, a rainbow if you wish. ✌️🙏🇺🇲
Life is suffering. If total Equity were achieved life would not suffer. One way would be to stop the climate from changing.😂
What's with the creepy AI thumbnail child. Is this the direction we're heading in now?