Right here’s a thought on David Brooks’ current essay in The Atlantic: “Hen Littles Are Ruining America,” aka “The Zeitgeist of Doom.”
He writes: Since about 2004, the share of American twelfth graders who say it’s “arduous to have hope for the world” has been surging, then supplies many attainable explanations for folks’s negativity, together with the notion that it’s turn into trendy to be dour; younger folks might really feel that they appear foolish and silly with a smile and a “can-do” perspective.
However isn’t it attainable that these people are exactly proper? What did 2004 seem like when it comes to hostilities with world superpowers? Did it appear attainable {that a} Donald Trump would come alongside, scale back america to white nationalist, anti-intellectual rubble, then make a valiant and presumably profitable try and overthrow American democracy? Did it seem attainable that local weather change would quickly be baking our planet whereas world leaders sat again and watched from their palaces?
Perhaps it’s a great assume that our teenagers acknowledge this crap for what it’s.
