I don't know what life advice they're getting in secondary school, but I certainly never got any of that kind of useful information when I was there.
Same. The assholes at my high school didn't teach me how to cook, how to change my car oil, or even basic HTML. And I still resent them to this day.
I don't want to echo the "fiction=reality" and "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" people I keep having to block on Tumblr, but it's probably fair to say that a moderate amount of cultural norms are communicated through media. And I wonder if the message that's gone out to kids growing up in the 2010s has anything to do with the culture of talk therapy in the 1990s and early 2000s, when the world was a different place. It's been kind of nice, in recent years, to see shows like Steven Universe and She-Ra tell stories about how there are some problems that can't be solved by talking about your feelings. And maybe that's a solid response to a lot of trouble created by the rise of social media, as well as the fact that recent developments in low-wage work are making a lot of people hungry-angry-lonely-tired more or less all the time.
Sorry, just thinking out loud...
...and vaguely wishing my professional training had included maybe a seminar or two in the fundamentals of social work.
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Date: 2020-06-28 09:06 pm (UTC)Same. The assholes at my high school didn't teach me how to cook, how to change my car oil, or even basic HTML. And I still resent them to this day.
I don't want to echo the "fiction=reality" and "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" people I keep having to block on Tumblr, but it's probably fair to say that a moderate amount of cultural norms are communicated through media. And I wonder if the message that's gone out to kids growing up in the 2010s has anything to do with the culture of talk therapy in the 1990s and early 2000s, when the world was a different place. It's been kind of nice, in recent years, to see shows like Steven Universe and She-Ra tell stories about how there are some problems that can't be solved by talking about your feelings. And maybe that's a solid response to a lot of trouble created by the rise of social media, as well as the fact that recent developments in low-wage work are making a lot of people hungry-angry-lonely-tired more or less all the time.
Sorry, just thinking out loud...
...and vaguely wishing my professional training had included maybe a seminar or two in the fundamentals of social work.