Been there, Done that

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Don't be jealous. Be angry.

One day go and ask your parents why they raised you in the manner you are inferring. Get them to explain why you were kept in a glass dome your entire life.

Then, sit back and enjoy all the wind that will be coming your way. Because most parents won't tell the truth about why they are so very over-protective.

It is because they were terrified thanks to advertising. They were told all kinds of crap to get them to buy things. And they believed every single 'fact' that was thrown out there, without taking five seconds to find out if the 'facts' were indeed true. I recall the nineties, when people were having conniption fits about crime and so on. A brave person (who was also a single mother) started pointing out that crime statistics are falling and the level of 'threat' that was continuously being thrown about was not as bad as it was being presented. The freaking corporations had a major meltdown over this person and did everything they could to discredit and ruin her growing presence. They simply refused to believe that the reality of crime in the country did not align with their desire to suck more money from people over things that they really did not need, so the corporations decided to lie about so that they could make some numbers.

It was the Fed that kept blowing their attempts to scare people into giving them money. They were the ones who gathered and kept the data on this topic. Today, they don't do that as much as they used to.

I wonder why.