Thinking about the 'Abilene Paradox' (look it up)

For the last 20 or thirty years our schools have been convincing our children about how 'dangerous' everything is. Patty-cake in PE classes instead of vigorous exercise. No 'Dodge-Ball. No camping/hiking clubs. No playing outdoors. No reading books the 'educators' do not approve of. And on and on and on. THEN the 'students' are told how wonderful they are. They are told that it's okay to believe 1 + 1 = 3. They are placed into groups for assignments and shown how important it is to comfort and console the others in your peer group. They are given awards for nothing, and everyone gets an award. Everyone feels swell.

Now, here comes the Abilene Paradox. A suggestion is made and it entails doing something any normal kid wouldn't want to do, or believes to be wrong, unnecessary or uninteresting. No one, despite how they feel in their gut about it, will speak up against the suggestion because they have been taught to feel that one or more of their peers will disapprove, that it's unwise or unsafe to disappoint a peer or teacher and that it's just safer to go along with the group - the group will continue to love them if they do. So now we have a great number of folks doing and saying things that they may not agree with, just to get along, as they were taught. They are doing it for the reward of perceived safety and approval. Just like they have been conditioned to do!

There may be thousands or millions even who feel just like you do about things - at least those among them that have retained an ability to reason. But, so long as they perceive their friends or peers wouldn't approve they are not interested. Further, they won't listen to your rational explanations for fear that they might agree with you rather than with their group, and for the same reason most won't set out to find the truth on their own.

I suspect that most born prior to 1970 are already "Woke" and it's gonna be a real chore bringing along the others