Hopefully not Phill, but it doesn't look good imo. I've job interviewed 24-25-26 y.o., have colleagues that age. Asked them if they have a driving license: No. Whisky tango foxtrot?!?! When I turned 18, maybe not that same day but that same week I was taking driving lessons. By 19 all my friends had their licence and were driving around in old (borrowed) bangers.
It's good your son takes up cars after his dad, in a few years time there will be only a small group of people left who can fix a car which they cannot plug into a computer. He can sort us dinosaurs out when the body does not feel like crawling underneath a car anymore.
This part may be sad but it is what it is. But then again, that's Darwinism.
On the other hand, there's a lot of good things happening, so I'm not pessimistic overall: I can communicate with you in France realtime, Den in the US, and that strange folk on the Island. There's wonderful progress in all sorts of fields, medical, technological, astronomical. And even when it does not always look like it due to the cockwomble and his gang in the US, that idiot in Russia, there has not been this low level of conflicts in the world or level of prosperity since the origin of written history.
So nice things are happening and I believe we are progressing as humanity, but we shouldn't let the goods things out of past slip (or the lessons or cars for that matter) through our fingers.
So this was this weekend's philosophical lesson. Back to day-to-day now.
