Writing for an audience

I saw a TikTok of a teacher talking about how far behind Gen Alpha students are in school. I usually react by writing it off as alarmist anxiety. One of the comments on the post said “Well why should they care, the illusion of working hard in school, and going to college, guaranteeing to lead to a better life, is gone”. I think this person is right in some ways. When I was younger, in middle and high school I was never inundated with cynical ideas of my economic future and I was allowed optimism. I think the absence of optimism could go two ways with the development of Gen Alpha. It could go the way of radicalism, where these kids never feed into the propaganda of the capitalist system and are actually able to change the system and the world we live in. They have the capability to not be inhibited by the shackles of familiarity that the majority of us have with the current system. Or, it could go the other way. This absence could lead to an apathetic immorality; these kids have the pot...

Just let that be known. The need for skepticism is fueled by skepticism. Skepticism is a parasite eating away at our peace of mind. Just because something brings up more internal questions of reason and understanding of God and/or the world around us, does not make it more fruitful. I don’t want to lead my life with a constant feeling of never understanding, of unending angst. Why have we accepted persistent skepticism as the only way to truly see reality for what it is? I refuse to accept that this self-flagellation of believing that “you’ll never understand, but you can never stop trying to understand” is the only way to pursue a spiritual well-being adequately. Do I need to feel a neverending, punishing, sense of pursuit towards understanding God and what he expects of us in order to be a good Jew? I don’t think so. I reject it, actually. The Nuer people in the Sudan have a, according to E. E. Evans Prichard, cut-and-dry view of the divine, what they can expect from the supernatural...