I want you to be right. Because I so much like reading your reasoning to things?
But I’ve got a hard time thinking that’s it either.
Ha! That’s nice, but I agree I’m probably wrong. It’s all speculation anyway. The point about the population thing didn’t really come straight across either. I’ve never been to a place where 50% of the population was kids (of 230 countries, Gaza ranks an exceptional 225 for median age), but I’ve been places with a lot closer to that than we have in the States. Things are different. A lot different. There are unattended packs of kids everywhere. Like, everywhere, everywhere. Places where kids simply do not belong – yup, it’s their favorite hangout. That’s right, the place with all the broken glass and tetanus nails. And they’re not neglected AFAICT – they’ve all got parents and can find their ways home for dinner and such, and seem happy and well-adjusted. But parents have jobs and school isn’t all day even when it’s in session, and the kids just roam. It’s not logistically possible for a society to directly oversee that many kids with that few adults and still have all the other things going on that a society does. Pack of kids in the middle of a potentially explosive protest? I could see it.
And I’m sure every now and then bad things happen to the kids. I met a girl named Deanna who was absolutely the most whip-smart and endearing girl, maybe about eight or so, traveling in a pack like this. Could have run the world at the rate she was going. She died of pneumonia.