Is the 'Man child' and 'Woman child' phenomenon an insidious control-based plot?

Ok you heard it here..

Perhaps this is the matrix? -  read on...

Is responsibility being bred out of society? 

Is society engineering a dumbing down of people in order to fit a 'control agenda'?

Well, that's the question....

A few years ago, I worked for a farm machinery repair company and were asked to take a couple of senior school students for a few days of work experience, this was an eye opener for a few reasons.

Firstly, they came equipped with a two sides of A4 paper list of things they were not allowed to do. Things like not use power tools, only use hand tools under supervision, not boil a kettle (Yes, honestly!) and so on.

We dispensed with the list, showed them how to use a small number of tools and left them to it, no one was hurt and they learned something.

We did bypass the kettle edict and the result was that the student had no idea how to make a cup of tea. I am not kidding. No pun intended.

When we asked about the list, it seemed that at school it was the same story.

It dawned on us, 'so what happens when you leave school and go out into the real world?' and that was just it. 

Unless they managed to acquire skills over and above clicking a mouse or using a touch screen they were pretty much useless in practical terms. Not their fault, but a culture of removing peril amounts to conditioning people to take no risk, to just sit there and do nothing and be dependent on others to fix things.

For an authoratative body imposing a regime like this is worrying. Who says these edicts must be followed and what is their agenda? From what I have seen, to create a generation of useless and dependent citizens, who will be easy to control.

This is further compounded by parents who want their children to stay living at home even after having graduated, parents who can't or don't want to let go or form 'same plane' relationships with their children. You see the Mums who look like and almost the same age as their daughters having some 'sister' relationship, perhaps the mothers are trying to recover their lost youth?

The 'Man child' 'Woman child' situation is in some respects due to high house prices and affordable housing problems, but it is only part of the problem.

What this creates is a situation where the young have no desire to take any responsibility because they are cushioned from 'reality' of paying rent, a relationship, housing, doing all that supposed boring crap. Its easier to sit on a beanbag and play with a gaming console and have food and laundry done for you.

And we go back to our work experience.  I know millennials who have little or no practical skills, their parents do the DIY, check their cars over. So when they are pushing up the daisies, what then? A reliance on Robots?

We need to skill up our young, because if we don't we are finished as a society.