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seem to know as fact. But I think the problem is far more serious. It's at the boundary of my knowledge of such things and so I may not be clear.
When your parents parents were young they received instruction from their elders. So also with your parents, and so also with you. And the rest of us here.
In the past few hundred years, things have been changing at a certain pace. In the past 50 years they changed faster. In the past 20 years even faster.
What holds societies together is such instruction that is transferred from generation to generation. That instruction needs time to be absorbed and undergo transformation, to meet the challenges of the time and morph into instruction that carries the essence of the old instruction along with it.
Because this constant --- change --- is happening faster and faster, I feel that this instruction does not have the time to gestate and develop and be transferred from one generation to the next properly. Instead of the young being instructed, they are being promoted to being teen CEOs and are told that being successful means winning, being a millionaire, being a billionaire, trampling over "losers", etc.
It feels to me, intuitively, as if we are reaching some kind of asymptotic limit, though we may still be far from it in our terms of our understanding of time. When young people are materially focused, society incurs a potentially incalculable loss.
And, to deal a final blow, rapidly changing change ensures that young people without any developed instruction will have no instruction to pass on. There will be a sci-film about how they launch a search on Google to find this instruction in the form of information. And then they'll find that information and knowledge and instruction are all different things. |
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