It is not necessary to be religious to have some doubts about pleasures. Everything that removes difficulties or generates some kind of comfort makes us dependent. As they say, "with the good it is easy to get used to." You see the middle-class families who, when they lose their purchasing power, are indebted to maintain the standard of living, no matter how irrational and unsustainable that situation may be.

I think that is stranger when a people see a government how a domination vehicle and no a freedom means

Pragmatism for millennials

There is some tendency for we reject the idea "isn't important if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice". It is a pragmatic principle, our times don't like pragmatical principles, because we are in a so ideological era.

This is easy to explain. The people, after the fall of the USSR, don't want tall a lot about politics.

The politics make so many tragedies in countries like Vietnam, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc. she is the reason for the conflicts in Poland, Czech, Russia too. And cause so many pain in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Angola, etc.

When there is a potency that seems the winner in a big conflict, is normal that at the end of this century, and the beginning of the next, the people to be less politicized.

But the children of this people, the generation after the Cold War, have a capacity that no one other generation has in the history. They have the capacity to talk about all the subjects with people in all the world. And I think that this capacity, allied with contradictions that are constitutive of the "Zeit-Geist". Contradictions how the excess of optimism at the end of the century, optimism with the internet in their possibilities, how business or communications. Our country that is in the world that is no allied with the first world (US) and the second world (USSR), called "third country" are turned the ingrowth countries, yet with the reference for the success in the winner potency.

All this factor is so uninteresting to a new generation. The no existence of the haven after an or two decades of study hard make that the born-in-Internet generation do opposition against the un-politicized parents.

This so politicized generation can make our coffin when she, how I believe that would be in a so ideological time, kills the pragmatism. She kills the idea "no matter the color of the cat if he catches mouses". And this is the death of so many solutions, so many innovations when you lose the capacity to think in the border of an ideology, a school of thought, etc.

I think that we could use a lot of pragmatists thinkers to show how to do thoughts that cross the border of the schools of thought, of the ideologies.

Links:

About the Deng Xiaoping citation:
https://youtu.be/zjiqHD1cqEg
https://youtu.be/B43YEW2FvDs

About the "sexualization culture differences" between the US and Germany

The far-right in the US says that in Germany the refugees are destroying the country, but this video shows how an American girl has realized that in Germany, at this time, Germany is more secure for women than the US. This is so meaningful about how they manipulate the reality and distort the facts for adequate to his thoughts:
https://youtu.be/DeyHhoicQ0o

How are you staying preparing yourself for the next global recession? Some tips for this?

How is to be a philosophy student

Easy video to listen

This video is about rare this in US. I think that this is an easy video to listen:
https://youtu.be/OPpLbkzGU-Y