Hi, Tony -
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:54:48PM +0100, Tony Large wrote:
> Hi Ben, I'm a boatless lurker on this list, but I just wanted to say
> that I really enjoy your contributions! And, I fully support your
> disappointment at the state of modern society and its incapacity for
> arithmetic and its low standard of literacy :-)
That's always pleasant to hear. :) I sometimes wonder if I'm just
grousing the way I remember "old people" doing when I was a kid... but
from what I recall, most of their complaints came down to "you
disobedient kids aren't doing it the same way we did!" That's actually
OK - it's supposed to be that way. It's even a compliment of sorts. :)
What I'm seeing now, though, is something completely different: kids
aren't getting _exposure_ to the things they will desperately need when
they become adults (and that failure is not theirs; it's culture-deep.)
They don't have any models for real courage; they don't have a basis for
learning how to think well and rationally; and they're trained to obey
their tools instead of *knowing* in their bones that Man is supposed to
make the moral and ethical decisions which direct the tools. That spells
the failure and the end of the society that we've built up. If not
today, then eventually - but inevitably.
> I'm old...
Thinking about those issues certainly makes me feel that way, too...
Thanks very much for the compliment.
Best regards,
Ben
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