> [Khalid]
> Has technology worked against Biology?
>
> [Krimel]
> I would be hard pressed to say the technology has
> worked against biology.
> After all life spans are longer and populations
> continue to rise at levels
> that would give Malthus the heeby jeebies.
I thought I'd give answers according to how the
placement facility I work at deals with these issues.
Remind you that a placement facility is a sort of
cyber world since it is not real world staged. It is
a controlled environment to deal with enhanced
problems all in one place.
Therefore question one, what technology? The
girls just don't exercise, and the only TV they watch
is about 2-3 hours Friday night and 2-3 hours Saturday
night to watch a movie if they earned that privilege.
Computers, well, at school they are hardly accessible.
> [Khalid]
> Are social skills lagging behind modernization?
>
> [Krimel]
> Whole new social skills are evolving before our
> eyes. Even 10 years ago
> there was no reminder in movie theaters to turn of
> your cell phone. There
> were no proposals being advanced in English
> Departments to allow children to
> express themselves as they do when text messaging.
> If a student tried to use
> emoticons of abbreviations it was a BFD.
> What is acceptable speech any more? I knew some
> serious lines had been
> crossed the first time I heard a talk show host call
> someone a pussy. But
> it's not like we couldn't see it coming.
Their social skills are terrible. I wonder how
some will ever finish out school, college, well, that
is a huge wonderment. Will they have a job? Could
they even talk to their boss in a respectful manner to
hold a job? Family life - I hope.
> [Khalid]
> Have we interfered with the "survival of the
> fittest"?
>
> [Krimel]
> Maybe interfere is not the right word but we have
> radically altered what
> fittest means. We have extended the lives of
> children born with all manner
> of birth defects. We allow all kinds of people who
> can not care for
> themselves to live and to reproduce. There are laws
> in most states that
> respect the reproductive rights of people with
> developmental disabilities,
> drug problems and genetic problems.
Therapy here is the big buzz thing to do.
Prisons are called 'Correction Facilities' now-a-days.
We can make them better. Yeah, in the old days
hangings might have been their fate, or disbandment
from a community. Now-a-days it is we can change
them, fit them back into society. So, as Krimel put
it, it's not just disability personal, but negative,
aggressive, suicidal tendencies that can be usurped
and human beings can be introduced back into society
with the social skills that will help them live in
this culture - that's the current motto. Education
levels are very, very low, and this alone makes me
wonder how far these children will go once introduced
back into a knowledge-necessary culture. The schools
a joke where I work. Apparently it is a joke in other
placement facilities from what I hear, at least from
very few I've heard about.
> [Khalid]
> While certain groups seem to function well on the
> basic level, the lack
> of refinement and enlightenment will hinder social
> advancement. I.e. the
> use of the N word for endearment, or using the F
> word 5 times in a 20
> word sentence.
>
> [Krimel]
> Every generation seems to seek to outrage the
> generations that preceded it.
> I don't really know if this is true but it surely
> seemed to be true in the
> past century. The real problem is the pace of
> change... It is a bit hard for me to get all huffy
about the
> behavior of children
> growing up under conditions that are almost nothing
> like what I experienced
> as a child. I am not even sure what advice one
> generation can offer to the
> next anymore.
Ah, but it is there social behavior that holds
them back. It seems to be a vicious circle. Their
not learning much wisdom, much about what this world
is about in order to change. Their learning what is
most important to them. Survival in the streets - be
tough and nobody will mess with you. This leads to
further use of smoke and screens to shield themselves
- more inappropriate conversations: this is
consequenced where I work.
> [Khalid]
> Please understand, my observations are general. Yes
> I am painting with a
> very broad brush. People should be free to do as
> they wish, but is there
> such thing as public etiquette and guidelines for a
> place where families
> gather?
>
> [Krimel]
> I agree that freedom is a wonderful thing but I
> think you are right to be
> concerned. It is terribly disappointing how it gets
> put to use.
Without etiquette, social organization,
inspiration, and morality (spirit) can not be
supported and enhanced. Bad etiquette leads to
stealing others people food, which we put to a stop by
having certain residents eat in their bedrooms
separated from other residents and watched closely as
they get their food.
> [Khalid]
> I have nothing against people with tattoos. But is
> there a code somewhere
> about displaying your prison tattoos in public.
>
> [Krimel]
> Some of the baby that gets toss with the theological
> bathwater is stuff like
> the body is the temple of the Lord. I wouldn't mind
> getting that one back
> out of the yard.
Yes, tattoos, those that are demeaning are to be
covered and consequences given if shown. These are
displays of identity, and sometimes identities that
speak to others in their social group so boundaries
can be made between one group and another group
quickly. Fighting and distrust right away sprouts
from these kinds of identities.
thanks.
woods,
SA
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