Brace yourself for the tsunami of crazy people about to overrun your city

And it is more of a city thing, isn’t it? We don’t see a lot of crazy people out here in the sticks… well, now that I think about it…

But it’s a different kind of crazy. In the city, crazy’s got a whole different vibe. It’s a dangerous sort of crazy. And it gets more dangerous every day as the toxic stew of addiction, homelessness, and mental illness defies our too-little too-late fixes.

Here’s why you need to brace yourself. My sources deep inside the K-12 education system tell me there’s a wave of feral children making their way towards graduation and into the streets.

These children missed two years of socialization that they normally would have gotten in school. Schools were closed for covid.

Kids went to “on-line learning.” I’m sure some learning went on, but all reports indicate that these students are overwhelmingly lacking in basic academic skills, and more importantly, lacking even more in social skills. They are the Children of the Screen. They are easily wounded. They have no attention spans to speak of. They respond well to short bursts of emotionally gratifying praise, but have zero resilience. They know they are special individuals and they know the world owes them way more than they’re getting.

The kids who were already mid-teens when the covid hit will be the least damaged. Their personalities were largely formed before the experts told Doug Ford to make them stay home for two years.

It’s the younger ones who are working their way through now that will explode the caseloads of social workers all across the land. They’re in the high schools now, and more of them will hit the streets every year going forward.

Many of them are woefully unprepared to cope in what we used to call “the real world.” That was the world where you took on some responsibilities and took some pride in paying your bills.

The “real world” for all too many of these feral children will be the world of addiction, homelessness, and mental illness.