It's worth a look at the players here too. Kids who worked straight out school in blue collar jobs or service jobs have few fantasy ideals about the world. It's a tough place and winning is hard.
Not neccisserily. Also, a lot of the kids I went to colelge with were working to pay for it.
College grads as well as college students postpone the reality kick to the head early on and spend years getting spoonfed fantastic ideals of what could be or what thier professor might want to be a reality despite the big outside world not working like that.
The big outside world doesn't work the way FOX news spews to cul-du-sac dwelling suburbanites who think Olive Garden is ethnic food.
What gives you the world view to decide what is "reality" for people? I guarentee, yours is very different from the people in Gaza and Israel.
Come a war and OMG people, innocent people, are getting dead as collateral damage to two powerful groups trying to kill each other. Never mind one is actively using them as a human shield.
And the other doesn't seem to give a ****.
The blue collar kid has a better understanding of taking losses out of personal experience,
Speaking as someone who grew up i na blue colar neighborhood, no, they do not. They know what happens in their narrow little world. And the idea that a plumber or painter can't elarn empathy for another human being is patronizing at best.
the college kids latch on to a stupidly simple concept that them protesting on campus in CA will somehow affect two warring factions in the middle east that are currently burying family and friends to prove whom is right.
No, they want the universities they attend to divest from companies profiting for the fighting.
They think they can change the opinions of top government agencies that chose to support one side or the other. Maybe they can, most times it fails miserably.
Often because most of us don't pay attentio nor pretend like we give agoddman about the univeristy library.
Meanwhile parts of a campus are getting smashed up, the educational process of the college is disrupted and parents are still paying tuition for Jr to show his support for terrorists putting babies up as a human shield.
If youy think tha this bad, wait until you learn some of the **** our tax dollars have paid for.
Hint, for right or wrong the government has much better Intel on what's going on there than Billy and Jane on the campus. They act on interests of a greater scale of worldwide risk in many cases. Yeah, somebody is gonna die in the crossfire meanwhile. It's impossible to save everyone.
How did this work out in Vietnam, Chile, Iraq, El Salvador etc?
Most times Billy and Jane benefit far more from the actions of thier government long term than what the cause the cut classes for would ever do for them.
And we can all benefit from showing more humanity
