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People thought we could just shut down all social interaction for a number of years and shove gadgets into people's hands with anti-social media intentionally designed to breed toxic conflict, and not have anti-social behavior result from it? It's like people watched Idiocracy and saw it as a model society we could work toward.

conscientious(adj.) 1610s, of persons, "controlled by conscience, governed by the known rules of right and wrong;" of conduct, etc., "regulated by conscience," 1630s, from French conscientieux (16c.; Modern French consciencieux), from Medieval Latin conscientiosus, from Latin conscientia "sense of right, moral sense" (see conscience).

conscience(n.) c. 1200, "faculty of knowing what is right," originally especially to Christian ethics, later "awareness that the acts for which one feels responsible do or do not conform to one's ideal of right," later (late 14c.) more generally, "sense of fairness or justice, moral sense."

This is from Old French conscience "conscience, innermost thoughts, desires, intentions; feelings" (12c.) and directly from Latin conscientia "a joint knowledge of something, a knowing of a thing together with another person; consciousness, knowledge;" particularly, "knowledge within oneself, sense of right and wrong, a moral sense," abstract noun from conscientem (nominative consciens), present participle of conscire "be (mutually) aware; be conscious of wrong," in Late Latin "to know well," from assimilated form of com "with," or "thoroughly" (see con-) + scire "to know," probably originally "to separate one thing from another, to distinguish," related to scindere "to cut, divide," from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split" (source also of Greek skhizein "to split, rend, cleave"). The Latin word is probably a loan-translation of Greek syneidesis, literally "with-knowledge." The sense development is perhaps via "to know along with others" (what is right or wrong) to "to know right or wrong within oneself, know in one's own mind" (conscire sibi). Sometimes it was nativized in Old English/early Middle English as inwit. Russian also uses a loan-translation, so-vest, "conscience," literally "with-knowledge."

What we might call the "Financialization Generation", which held the reins from ~1975 to at least 2021, deliberately and knowingly destroyed the conditions under which the great majority of people could experience anything known as 'career success' [1]. That they are now paying researchers to bemoan that those so undermined lack "Conscientiousness" about their work environment is a bit rich.

[1] yes, we all know some successful entrepreneurs, the guy with 17 money-earning patents, and the super-hustlers who are on track to retire at 35 by dint of working seven jobs 120 hours/week. Those are far distant outliers to the mean

This is the inevitable result of classism and the resulting corruption. Civilization as we know it is about to collapse once again because of the moral rot from within. Is civilization doomed by the unethical actions of the upper class? Not inevitably, but quite possibly, unless those actions are curtailed and the systems enabling them are transformed.

The danger is real, and we’re in a critical window. The upper class, due to their influence, bears disproportionate responsibility. But doom is not a fo

Is there a link to the article without a Paywall or are we just accepting the summary as the basis for all discussion on the matter?

Hm. So folks who were small kids when the US ramped up a massive security panic, kids during a period of economic upheaval, Teens during our global experiment with raising children by cell phone, and are now trying to learn how to adult in another brewing economic mess, with creeping fascism and "AI" weirdness distorting everything.

All while being forced to go to schools bitter shitbag losers like to shoot up.

When you're powerless in an environment that is constantly changing and frequently hostile, it d

self-reporting and surveys produce notoriously unreliable data.

Take a look at the research on the flynn effect. That stuff is pretty solid. The wiki page has data until around 2000. More recent data is a bit harder to find, but from what I see, no serious researchers are reporting major dumbing-down in the population. Things may have reached a plateau in first-world countries, but people aren't getting dumber. Yes there are tons of booger-eating morons in the population, but overall humans are the smart

That we actually tell him to meet us 1 hour before we actually plan to be there. If we say "Dinner at 7", we tell him dinner is at 6. And then sometimes he's still late!

When people get the absolute shit kicked out of them non-stop by life they learn to live in the here and now and the moment.

You can't make any plans because at any moment the entire economy collapses around. You know that anything you have isn't going to last because you don't have a stable society to live in.

I see this with my kid despite my best efforts. It's not too bad because I have shoveled money their way in order to make sure they can succeed in a career by getting a good degree and getting

I used to be very detailed in my work. Then my manager said I shouldn't be such a perfectionist and work faster and more sloppy. I did just that. Projects failed, profit was high as we were just a third party and we were still less sloppy than the other contractors. So they got the blame. My manager was right.

Being conscientious is perceived as a handicap these days. Just shout and cheat your way through. That is the path that leads to profit.

That checks. Trying to make any kind of commitment to something casual a week in advance with younger people is annoyingly difficult.

"Busy next Thursday evening?" Shouldn't be met with, "I don't know. I'll have to see." The right answer is, "Now I am!"

It's an extension of how people visiting over coffee feel the need to check their phone. It's rude. It's saying that whatever unknown might come along is more important.

So I am building a machine that takes the energy from Boomer threads and converts it into electricity and these kind of threads really messed that up.

The sudden increase in power cause the machine to explode and it's taken out about a half a city block.

Anywho could we maybe cut back on these threads for just a little bit while I work out the kinks? Thanks.

Poor reporting on a paywalled article.

Surprise.

boomers have stolen everything not nailed down for the next 100 years and have their eyes on the nails.

There's value in being civil, gracious, courteous, respectful, even when disagreeing with someone. Everyone gets along better. For some reason people have stopped teaching and practicing that. We all have differences and will always have differences. These are important skills that need to be learned, practiced, and exercised, in order to maintain civility in any society.

Instead we have devolved to the order of the elementary school playground, where the loudest bully who successfully shits on everything an