Definitely, what you define as morale can have a big impact. You are pointing out a central issue: the belief that you have impact on improving your conditions is paramount to this.
However, if you perceive a fast-changing global society, instead of a slow-moving local society, it is only logical to conclude that your own actions have almost no effect on your outcomes, especially if projected over a longer timespan.
I told my teacher friend yesterday that what she is teaching her pupils (5-12) will be largely useless to their actual functioning 15 years from now. School is generally a very conservative institution led by conservative people who, by and large, are still preparing kids for traditional jobs. Things are changing way to fast to expect to have a create a curriculum that spans 10-15 years and that you expect to last say, for 20 years. Those are the timescales schoold operate upon, but that doesn’t match reality.
I think if you are young and thinking about your future, you are lacking both clear direction (values have become diffuse and not shared) and the world is telling you things way outside of your influence are changing so rapidly that making a long term plan is useless anyway. In short, people are put into survival mode, and research has shown clearly what happens when that is the case: you focusing on short-term gains and personal pleasures.
Definitely, what you define as morale can have a big impact. You are pointing out a central issue: the belief that you have impact on improving your conditions is paramount to this.
However, if you perceive a fast-changing global society, instead of a slow-moving local society, it is only logical to conclude that your own actions have almost no effect on your outcomes, especially if projected over a longer timespan.
I told my teacher friend yesterday that what she is teaching her pupils (5-12) will be largely useless to their actual functioning 15 years from now. School is generally a very conservative institution led by conservative people who, by and large, are still preparing kids for traditional jobs. Things are changing way to fast to expect to have a create a curriculum that spans 10-15 years and that you expect to last say, for 20 years. Those are the timescales schoold operate upon, but that doesn’t match reality.
I think if you are young and thinking about your future, you are lacking both clear direction (values have become diffuse and not shared) and the world is telling you things way outside of your influence are changing so rapidly that making a long term plan is useless anyway. In short, people are put into survival mode, and research has shown clearly what happens when that is the case: you focusing on short-term gains and personal pleasures.