A method to solve the problem of moral panic at its root

Last week I send some messages to Christopher J Ferguson, Ph.D. and Mike Males to share my suggestions about this moral panic about social media. It’s not replied. Here I post what I said in the chats.

I have an suggestion about this moral panic. It may be controversial.

I think a major reason of this moral panic is Bureaucracy.

First, as we known the moral panic towards social media comes from adultism.

But I think adultism is from bureaucracy.

In this system, whether people can join a job, not completely depend on his adility.

But on age, degree, and so on. We can usually find some of the jobs is easy and simple, but it still requires a high degree and long experience.

And ability is not important, so in their minds, whether a person can join in something, is up to certification. Who can do what, is not up to the real condition, but the fixed rules. This is why they are interested in set many age barriers.

And in addition, in traditional growth path, people are not told to sell your skill in the market for survival, instead, the authority always tell us, follow the rules, be the good boy according to the standard. And then office job will come.

Usually, if a person lives by their skill, he will think by first principle. They would stress more by if it can solve problem, take more attention on the result. So they judge young people only by if they can solve problem, rather than if they grew up in a particular pattern.

Such as computer programmer, skilled workers, engineers.

If you can make a software run, no one cares whether you are brainwashed by algorithm. If you can fix a car and make it run fast again, no one cares whether you come from a phone-based childhood.

But in the traditional pattern, they always stressed more on following the rules.

What they learn is just to follow the rules, and office job will automatically come.

In their opinion, the office job is just a praise for their following social norm well. They despite other ways to success without following the school rules. They attributed their success more to growing in a particular pattern rather than job skill.

So though they find an office job, it would be more likely to be administrative job and entry-level white-collar jobs. These are not depending on skill and technology, but more on socialization level. Therefore, it has a strong dependence on the platform.

As more and more people choose the path of obtaining a degree through dubious means, the narrative of achieving success by following to school rules gains widespread acceptance. They have no enough job skills except a degree. But they think as a good boy in school, they deserve office job.

So the society created many extra posts to settle them.

However, these jobs don’t produce anything, just consume them. But they gives a them scene of success. This kept the narrative of being a good boy and then success, telling people if you follow the traditional order, you will also gain these all. This drives more and more people to choose the way that just follow a rule to grow up without asking why.

And then, because these jobs lack of skill and technology, depends more on platform. So their job is just about following rules. So in their minds the most important thing is to follow social norm. They cannot understand other ways of life.

Most important, people on these extra posts want to keep themselves, they don’t want to lose their job.

So they are willing to prove their importance. So they relentlessly promoted the importance of growing in a particular pattern.

So to solve this problem, one important way is to promote flat management in enterprises. Cutting down extra administrative posts can not only save money for the company. Leaving only creators and producers can make the company pay more attention on the working result. This will create a more pragmatic atmosphere.

And what I sincerely wanto say is that

to restart DOGE

I think this is a useful way

First, in the government, there is also many extra office posts, which just lives by only following the particular rules rather than true output.

And more important, to keep the moral panic, we have paid much of resource into it.

To support Jonathan Haidt, To support these researches about the harms of social media. To announce it. How much money had spent! Much of them comes from our tax.

And government itself also spent plenty of resource for banning social media from youth. The most famous example is Australian eSafety department. It costs people’s money to annoy them.

As we known the education system is filled with much extra ideology works, such as DEI. Teachers are tired for them, wasting the energy to be used for teaching.

This has been point out. I think, that social media is harmful to students’ mental health is also from these ideology bullshit. Which has no relationship between education.

This wastes plenty resource of education. In Elon Musks reform and Millais’ reforms in Argentina, people have reduced many useless ideology jobs in education system, I think this should be listed as one of them.

In the previous DOGE by Musk, it only reduced the extra costs, meaningless moralist jobs from Left-wing progressives, but it ignored the same things from Right-wing conservatives. However it is also very serious. By seeing them reversing the truth in the meta trial, we can feel how much resource we have wasted for them.

So in the next generation of DOGE, we will not stand by a single side. It would be neutral. We will be fairly committed to reduce all the meaningless ideology jobs wasting the resource from the public, no matter it is progressive or conservation.

So I think restarting DOGE is an useful way to fix the problem of our society.

How do you think?

I just post what I said in the chat. Later I will write more than one long posts to explain my theory systemically.