I say there is no deeper meaning than the truth taught by life, and that life’s truth is most importantly learned and mastered, than navel gazing in fairy tales. I’m saying we should teach kids about taxes, rent and utility bills in middle school, before requiring them to learn hamlet. We have generations of adults now who thought the humanities were important, but can’t buy a house. Fairy tales are fun and entertaining, but being able to survive in a world seemingly set to use you up for whatever it can take from you, is far more valuable.
nah better to raise them to be erudite starry eyed homeless people with a real sense of cosmic justice and the knowledge they can kill dragons if only they wanted to badly enough
“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.” [emphasis added]
I say there is no deeper meaning than the truth taught by life, and that life’s truth is most importantly learned and mastered, than navel gazing in fairy tales. I’m saying we should teach kids about taxes, rent and utility bills in middle school, before requiring them to learn hamlet. We have generations of adults now who thought the humanities were important, but can’t buy a house. Fairy tales are fun and entertaining, but being able to survive in a world seemingly set to use you up for whatever it can take from you, is far more valuable.
should we really be bringing our kids up to be nice little conformant drones?
nah better to raise them to be erudite starry eyed homeless people with a real sense of cosmic justice and the knowledge they can kill dragons if only they wanted to badly enough
teach them rebellion and revolution and defiance, teach them to dream about a better world, teach them right to repair and reverse engineering and open source, teach them science and technology and engineering and art and design are all interlinked and that economists have no idea what they’re doing, teach them who the dragons are, teach them resilience and sustainability and regeneration, teach them other people have feelings too
don’t teach them conformity and obedience and compliance
You sound like a miserable POS, sorry