Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoI think that we are going to need more social cohesiveness
I don’t disagree, but there are deeper problems here and forcing teenagers into work they’re not enthusiastic about isn’t the fix. Especially not if that work follows the rigid hierarchy of a military or military-like organisation.
We have problems of alienation caused by capitalism.
We have a lack of community with neighbours caused by car-dependent infrastructure and a lack of third spaces.
And I’m just not going to buy the idea that forcing young people into working under a rigid hierarchy (a very un-Australian concept, if there ever was one!) would work at all, but even in the best case it would just be a bandaid on the wound.
kudra@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think a climate corps world not have to be run in a military fashion, and can be doing very peaceful things like planting trees, making bicycle paths, social outreach, or tech if that’s what motivates you. Read the article linked for more ideas of what could be included.
I agree about capitalism & lack of space and car depency, 1000 percent. But we’ve also given people the idea that society of just this given, the structure just exists and you get the benefits of infrastructure (even though it’s far from perfect) without being required to give back. I think that concept of valuable and with an aging population, we will have difficult choices to make in future. Kids shouldn’t have to shoulder a greater burden, and I also believe the welfare state is going to collapse because of logistics of population decline and degrowth in our future, unless we manage it incredibly carefully. We can’t keep going the way we have been, that’s certain.