You Just Cannot Blame Teenagers

In 1833, UK passed the first effective law to end child labor for children under the age of nine. Children between 9 and 13 can only work for 8 hours a day, and they will have to get 2 hours of school education each day.

In 1876, a loyal investigation of the execution of that previous law found that the ban of child labor is not very well enforced, and they suggested that compulsory education is the only way to end child labor. In that law, it is stated that child between five to ten must go to school. The age range is expanded later.

On its design, the system of compulsory education for children has its basic target being “custodial” and "assimilation", which means to safely monitor the children and to load all children into the same model for the easy use of society and its productions.

On this stage of their life, it is designed that teenagers are deprived of the rights that adults have, and they will have to conform to the rules of adult live.

Some would argue that children at this stage are not capable of deciding for themselves and would be risk-seeking. Unfortunately for them, scientific evidence has shown that the teenager brain, or its cognitive capabilities, is already fully prepared at the age of sixteen. Maturity and carefulness, as in contradiction of some might believe, are not products of older age, but products of negative experiences.

What adult hasn't gone through a phase, maybe in their teenage years, maybe in their twenties, where they did something truly terrible, only to wise up afterwards? Let's suppose adults are more pragmatic; yet, who among them hasn't suffered a major setback precisely because they lacked that pragmatism earlier?

Comparison of maturity between poor black children and rich white kids of the same age can precisely display this process.

As a result of all these design policies above, it is decided that teenagers will not be allowed to participate in economic production, decision making or politics.

This limitation will itself be able to explain why teenagers would talk about seemingly naive or boring or vulgar and dull topics. This can also explain why they spend all their time on seemingly meaningless and time-wasting products.

Adolescents possess virtually no real economic or political power; the only authority they control is the "status system" through which they evaluate one another. This system is inevitably grounded in visible, comparable items, such as consumerism, fashion, and slang, rather than in abstract political, academic, or the perceived-by-adults "higher-level" topics.

Wanna fix videos games? Fix short videos? Incessant spending on fashion, pay-to-win? First give teenagers the real power to participate in real world, substantial events(w/ consequences for sure), not just your imaginarily powerful community volunteering or group discussions or social activities.

I know, you can't meet the requirements above, then quit blaming your children! For you cannot chain a wolf to a post its whole cub-hood, call it "training," and then act baffled when, upon release, all it knows how to do is howl at the moon instead of hunt.