Thursday, January 9, 2025

Adult at 14: Introduction

I.  Nature defines adulthood as reaching an age with the ability to reproduce, for example, an adult plant is one capable of reproduction. 


II. The adulthood rituals of mainstream religions are around that age.


III. For 10,000 years of human civilization, people learned their trade before 14, and left the family of origin around that age. 


IV. Brain and physical function peak around that age, and deteriorate after 18. You get a fat ass and a poorer memory ability. The vaunted decrease of older age in risk taking is from the dementing process of losing dopamine neurons at 10% a decade of life. 


V. Maturity is acquired from responsibility and from painful experience, not from the passage of time. 


VI. The slow progression of legal adulthood to ever older ages is a lawyer delusion and rent seeking scheme. It is to excuse the criminal conduct of their clients, and to earn defense income. They want adulthood for criminal responsibility to be at age 25. This is the age when the frontal lobes are fully myelinated, and the brain stops developing. Of course, this quackery promotes an impairment, not a strength. 


VII. High school is a rent seeking, government make work scam that should be ended. Education should be accelerated by 2 years up to the 8th grade. Everyone should finish school with what is now a 10th grade education, including average and low performing students. It should include relationship skills, financial sophistication, a habit of daily physical exercise, knowledge of fallacies and of critical thinking, etiquette, hygiene,  and manners. Learn from Asian schools where students study from 6 AM to 10 PM. They are not learning by rote, but they are learning creative problem solving. 


VIII. Students entering the 9th grade at 15 should be learning their vocations. These include the professions, such as medicine. If one insists on 80 hours a week of memorizing 2000 page books every 12 weeks, the 16 to 18 year old is better at that than the deteriorated 22 year old. 


IX. Do not waste the superior ability of the young adult on playing. End playing at age 10. This will provide an upgrade in knowledge, innovation, and getting things done in all vocations. The ability of young adults and even of children is being intentionally underestimated for nefarious lawyer purposes. 


X. The pace of change will have an accelerating acceleration. It will require people with far more agility, ability, and willingness to take productive risks. Young people take more risk. It should be in well informed venture capital investing, in business startups,  not in a speeding car. To have people at the peak of ability sitting in a baby sitting in high school, achieving nothing, is self defeating. 


XI. If people age 16 will have a vocation, and adult responsibilities, they should have the legal rights of adulthood, contract making, marriage, voting, drinking, legal drug use. They should also have full adult criminal and civil liabilities, military draft.  

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