Replying to @ki4jgt@feddit.org
By keeping them indoors all the time, have we raised a generation of kids who question nothing?
This is anecdotal, but in my own contact with younger folks it’s clear to me that many of them are depressed due to climate dread and worried about the rise of the far-right, and they’re smart enough to see their govs are deciding not to do anything to tackle their concerns. I don’t see them “questioning nothing”.
Humans are self-serving.
We have evidence of cooperation for the entirety of human history and prehistory, there’s no way we would have survived long enough to build agrarian societies where acumulation was possible without first developing cooperation among each other. We may have a drive for self-preservation, but even under capitalism we care about others, we’re just taught we can only care about some groups of people (ex: your own family). And even then you see stuff like this: gulfnews.com/…/egyptian-teenager-sacrifices-his-l…
The kids will be fine. Our society is not.