Finding a girlfriend will 'just happen'.
Work hard at your job and you'll be successful.
Girls don't really care about muscles.
Just be yourself.
Democracy is the best form of constitution.
In Thailand, men only have sex with whores.
Your intelligence alone will bring you success.
Qualifications are the most important thing for career success.
God is real and important.
If all these things were simple affixed with ", but I'm not sure, so check for yourself", that'd be OK. It's the knowing tone that elders say it in that leads young people, who know no better, just to accept it as a given.
This is why I now understand the biological purpose of teenage men being so arrogant, and why they are often mocked by elders as "thinking they know everything" as a result. That arrogance is actually merely a defense mechanism against the far worse combined arrogance, stupidity, and lies of their elders.
Work hard at your job and you'll be successful.
Girls don't really care about muscles.
Just be yourself.
Democracy is the best form of constitution.
In Thailand, men only have sex with whores.
Your intelligence alone will bring you success.
Qualifications are the most important thing for career success.
God is real and important.
If all these things were simple affixed with ", but I'm not sure, so check for yourself", that'd be OK. It's the knowing tone that elders say it in that leads young people, who know no better, just to accept it as a given.
This is why I now understand the biological purpose of teenage men being so arrogant, and why they are often mocked by elders as "thinking they know everything" as a result. That arrogance is actually merely a defense mechanism against the far worse combined arrogance, stupidity, and lies of their elders.