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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (149210)	6/17/2019 12:51:32 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217713

moe, nothing personal, but you sound like a bitter old man.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (149210)	6/17/2019 2:18:18 PM
From: Joseph Silent	10 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita arun gera bull_dozer dvdw© elpolvo and 5 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217713

You state something that most of us 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.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (149210)	6/17/2019 5:57:43 PM
From: marcher	3 Recommendations Recommended By dvdw© ggersh Maurice Winn Respond to of 217713

hmmm...well, i agree with this part of your post: --venerating the venerable is a good idea-- and there's this old guy with a kunstlerian view: --...these mid-cycle days of the long emergency (i.e. the collapse of techno-industrial economies) feature the willful abandonment of reason by the thinking class of Western Civ...Hence, the new elastic meaning of the concept known as “truth.” Capital T Truth used to be mankind’s conduit to reality. To even state it that way now may invite censure for sexism, since the word “man” has lately been burdened with toxic overtones; while the concept of sexism itself is tinged with the unreal notion that the hard-wired tensions between men and women should not be allowed to exist and must be abolished. ...The divorce between truth and reality is nearly complete now that everybody has his/her/zhe’s own truth, and the facts are just ornaments subject to rearrangement within anyone’s own story. ..For instance, that most recent example of non-inclusive “truth” known as the Mueller Report... states unequivocally that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s email server in 2016. In reality, there is no evidence of that being true. Neither the FBI nor Robert Mueller and his own investigators made any attempt to conduct a forensic examination of the DNC’s servers. They left the job to an outfit called Crowdstrike, a DNC contractor... ...Mr. Mueller left out of his report the fact that two Russians present in the infamous Trump Tower Meeting of 2016, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, were in the service of Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS “oppo research” company, hired by the Clinton Campaign and progenitor of RussiaGate... ...The cost turns out to be the dismemberment of thinking itself in America. It is now taken for granted that anyone who persists in thinking for him/her/zheself will be tossed out of the Internet’s large “social media” arenas in Mark Zuckerberg’s and Jack Dorsey’s quest to purify history.-- zerohedge.com