Your world vision is in the minority. That being said, with the EC, the 2 senator system per state…and the filabuster, the minority tends to have more power then the majority. A super majority is needed for any real change. And the R played the long game, and convinced a handful of small states that cons are a better choice. The democrats embracing neo-liberalism is the 90’s did not help them…
Your hyper individualism sounds good…until it is actually implemented.
My youngest did online school in high school. My grandchildren are home schooled.
When the schools started to care more about the politics of teaching than actual teaching, that was it for me.
I agree, my grandchildren are very well rounded students. They are ahead of their peers in academics. They have plenty of friends and my children know all of their children’s friends and their parents.
Wish I could have been homeschooled. The high school I went to was a violent pit and so much time was spent trying to hammer minimal info into the heads of people who had no interest it was tortuously boring for me, can still remember just how slow clock hands can move. So I mostly just read books during class. Teachers stopped calling me out on it when I aced every test. Because hello, you are teaching from the text and I can read. All I had to do was read the assigned reading, which didn’t take long and it was 100% all the way on the tests.