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I remember interning at a place during uni, where something had broken, and a handful of 40 year olds asked me, a probably 19 or 21 year old intern, if I could fix it, as nobody else at the company knew how. (I had recently learned how through my classes)
That was the definite moment, along with a few others where I suddenly realized that adults didn’t always know what they were doing.
But it was especially present at that internship. Outwardly, I was ready for the challenge, but inwardly, I was reeling that a company with decent profits and 100+ personnel was entirely relying on someone not too far out of highschool.
If they were relying on me for that, what else were people relying on at other companies, organizations, even governments? It made me really realize how ad-libbed our world is, having thought professionals in every sector had been firmly in control of the world as I had known it, up to that point.
I think about this comic a lot.
Same. It’s one that has always stuck with me and proven itself to be very true.
Yeah, this one has stuck with me too. I’ve thought about it many times over the years.
Did they swap sides of the bed?
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Doesn’t this come from people being isolated as consumers? Adults could know most things if we had a better working society.
I don’t think he’s talking about concrete actions to take in response to a given scenario. He’s talking about the broader emotional reaction.
When someone experiences trauma and says ‘what am I supposed to do now?’ they’re not asking for literal instructions, they’re expressing emotional turmoil.
they’re not asking for literal instructions, they’re expressing emotional turmoil.
Even that, couldn’t we live in a society that creates the needed support?
Not really. If you have a child, all the adults and elderly come out with their advice, what’s often conflicting or just doesn’t apply for you. There’s so much of the classic remedies and stuff that just doesn’t work. And these days society is changing so much and so fast that any advice from the previous decade is already outdated.
I think isolation is a big part of it, yes.
In more tight-knit communities there would be less guesswork (at the risk of weird traditions, though)
