For most of history, there was no separate culture of children. Kids joined the adult world at a very young…

For most of history, there was no separate culture of children. Kids joined the adult world at a very young age, and never left it. Then we invented universal mass schooling. That literally inverted our cultures. At first schools ‘prepared’ children’ for adult lives. But…1/4 https://t.co/QNtujRaOVZ

…all institutions develop an internal culture. Schools are the same. The culture of schools became child culture. It’s all they knew, decoupled from the adult world. So what did they do when they left school? They remade the adult world, as a high school. 2/4

Again, it’s all they knew. Societies then had completely flipped, from being an adult world containing children as young adults, to being a child’s world. Everything you see about modern ‘populist’ life has this as its origin. Popularity is the currency of school culture. 3/4

Elections are society-wide popularity contests, contested by rival groups. Again, just a giant high school. If you want to change the world, think like a teenager. That’s your target audience. /end