American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts

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8 pointszchrykng2 comments

One way to interpret the results is that kids have no real preferences and want to be what they're most exposed to. They watch videos, listen to music, watch sports, and go to school, hence athlete vlogger teacher musician. In the 50s everyone would have been talking about the space race.

This resonates but can also be viewed as testament to the rapid deterioration of American society on all fronts but most importantly in ethics and values.

One great movie that brilliantly captures the American pioneering spirit is “The Right Stuff” [1]. It is old movies like it that can quickly illustrate the magnitude of American decline. Compare and contrast the values projected back then with today’s relentless materialism, cults of personality, money/status worship and a tendency to radically deconstruct everything towards a uniform egalitarian race to nothingness.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/

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