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comment by MadEmperorYuri
MadEmperorYuri  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: That's Not Funny- Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.

    Before college was more widespread, after high school (and many times before it was completed) was the time to get a job, get married, have kids, and wait to die. Not that time is later and later and I wonder if it's partially due to the effect of continued education without real responsibility. ... As college delays adulthood, you would expect to see similar delays in this development of self and context.

Is this really a bad thing, though? Our lives are longer now than they used to be, so why shouldn't childhood be longer as well? And we know now that most people's brains aren't finished maturing until their mid-20s, however much we might like to pretend that an 18 year old person can consent to participating in war. So why should we not push back the time when a person has to "get a job, get married, have kids, and wait to die"?





user-inactivated  ·  3155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it's bad or good, but it does suggest that you'll start to see more childish behavior around college age people than you used to. So we should expect identities which would usually be more firm in the early onset of college to develop later. People would be searching for their own way later and they'd be less likely to have a defined self. I think this also has a lot to do with how quickly social justice fires start and are extinguished.