It's a child-like mentality. Rights without responsibility. Reward without effort to earn it. It's a mentality that if one wants a thing, one need only cry loudly enough and someone will give it to you. There's no awareness or processing of the cost of those things or the need to trade something of value. The value of those things is the value of a toddler's toy. It's interesting until it's not, and then, if someone else has it, suddenly I want it.
The issue here is that we've got leaders and teachers who were so blessed by prosperity following WW2 that they never emerged from that child-like mentality into an adult view of the world. As a result, they just keep looking for new "parents" to provide, and thus, find the government, which seems to have unlimited resources and thus can and should provide them on demand.
If you've ever read the personal life and history of Karl Marx, it's really eye opening. The entire ideology is a study in the behavior and attitudes of a spoiled rich kid surrounded by other even richer kids and feels that social status symbols are what defines a person and their value in society. It's a toddler's world view and he was placated his entire life with people who would pay for his every whim. He thinks the entire world should work that way.
I would add the concept of participation medals, purposefully removing the incentive to be the best. It was a very subtle marxist tactic that encourages mediocre or weak participants and demeans those that excel.
Everyone is the same, no more winners and losers. Now take that psychology forward into your life children.
It's a child-like mentality. Rights without responsibility. Reward without effort to earn it. It's a mentality that if one wants a thing, one need only cry loudly enough and someone will give it to you. There's no awareness or processing of the cost of those things or the need to trade something of value. The value of those things is the value of a toddler's toy. It's interesting until it's not, and then, if someone else has it, suddenly I want it.
The issue here is that we've got leaders and teachers who were so blessed by prosperity following WW2 that they never emerged from that child-like mentality into an adult view of the world. As a result, they just keep looking for new "parents" to provide, and thus, find the government, which seems to have unlimited resources and thus can and should provide them on demand.
If you've ever read the personal life and history of Karl Marx, it's really eye opening. The entire ideology is a study in the behavior and attitudes of a spoiled rich kid surrounded by other even richer kids and feels that social status symbols are what defines a person and their value in society. It's a toddler's world view and he was placated his entire life with people who would pay for his every whim. He thinks the entire world should work that way.
So do his followers.
Excellent observation.
I would add the concept of participation medals, purposefully removing the incentive to be the best. It was a very subtle marxist tactic that encourages mediocre or weak participants and demeans those that excel.
Everyone is the same, no more winners and losers. Now take that psychology forward into your life children.