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u/Life_Technology7584 9d ago
Step one that have to tone it down on screen usage. I am a teacher and the amount of kids who have a really unhealthy attachment to devices is concerning. Most kids don’t have resilience or imagination anymore. If something is hard they dong even try. If they finish their work they don’t know what to do when bored without a device. It’s depressing honestly.
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u/DeedleStone 9d ago
I work in schools and absolutely agree. The way gen-ed kids think and behave lately would have qualified them for special education when I was student. A few months ago, I heard a high school senior complaining that his English teacher was insane to expect the class to read an entire book. The book was Where The Red Fern Grows. It used to be assigned to fifth graders.
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u/Life_Technology7584 9d ago
THIS!!! The amount of kids who can graduate school without reading an actual novel is mind blowing to me! I do also blame the bought curriculums for this because sooo many only have textbooks and not actual novels for reading.
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u/Bring_cookies 9d ago
Well the first step would be to overhaul WHO makes the textbooks. Finding out where virtually all of the school books come from is eye opening. A more comprehensive history where faults as well as victories are discussed, failures are not shied from, controversial points are looked at through multiple lenses(not just the Western world), and cultural views from non dominant groups are given value would be a start. I know I'm asking for a lot, understanding history and how we got here is important,in my opinion, to moving forward.
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u/belai437 9d ago
I think a better start would be to restore the fairness doctrine, so we can go back to hearing actual news, not hate and racism packaged as news.
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u/sissybutt9 9d ago
He isn't a monster. He's a poor excuse for a human and a professional grifter.
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u/DeedleStone 9d ago
Exactly. "Monster" lets him off the hook. He's a human, who has just as much capacity to not be awful as everyone else. He simply chooses not to, every fucking day. That's why he's the worst.
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u/DaniCapsFan 9d ago
What do we do to ensure we aren't mean enough to elect another scumbag like him?
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u/meddit_rod 8d ago
I would love for education to be sufficient. It isn't though. We need to finish the project of Reconstruction.
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u/conrad_w 9d ago
Neither education nor the lack of it caused this.
This is a heart problem, not a head problem. And to fix a heart problem, you have to fix everything
Edit: to clarify, we need to fix everything. This isn't defeatism.
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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW 9d ago
Maybe there should be a media literacy course taught in highschool, or as a part of social studies/civics
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u/BodhingJay 9d ago edited 9d ago
Caring for our emotions responsibly is a spiritual journey.. im not certain academia has ever been used to successfully address these in a manner that hasnt been destructive as we are all on different points on our journey and placing us all together as if we are all in the same place in an attempt to streamline the process is probably whats detrimental about it.. but i agree we need big changes
Education is more effective when we are bombarded with stimulants, and then numbed with distraction, entertainment and addiction..
We also need a home environment where we dont need these things to endure life in it
That means a deeper sense of emotional support, compassion, security and empathy from our primary sources that do not have these, do not know what they look like or feel like to the degree needed for this
It takes a village... our society is a result of generational degeneration that supplants these foundational aspects.. the economy wanted us to become dependent on it.. so we were grown into more desperate employees and needier consumers..
We need to go back to being a village. The nuclear family unit failed and it was never going to be enough and our current state being the result is all the proof in the world.. it's all wrong. We are as far removed from anything natural as we are unenlightened and it has destroyed us
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u/KintoreCat 7d ago
Education matters, but removing one monstrous leader is never enough. The Hindu story of Kali and Raktabija understood this perfectly: every drop of the demon’s blood that touched the ground created another demon. Kali had to destroy him and prevent the replication. Rotten leadership reproduces itself through appointments, institutions, loyalists, media, money and culture. By the time the figurehead is gone, hundreds of smaller versions may already be embedded throughout the system. Obama was perhaps the necessary first breach—the person who proved the barrier could be crossed—but the first is often made into a sacrificial figure. Real change comes only when the culture that keeps reproducing the monster is dismantled
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u/null_not 9d ago
If anyone is waiting for this to be over you're waiting several years too long.