Putting God back into schools.

[Ninurta]

You gathered it all together in a neat little ball, and presented it well.

We are indeed harvesting a crop that we seeded, planted, and cultivated. And here we are right now, bitching and complaining about the quality of the fruit that we raised. 

I look at the children in my family, community, and my job, and I shake my head. I see how their parents interact with them, or fail to interact with them, and again I shake my head.

Just on Wednesday I was in a government building assisting my Mother with processing the information needed for renewing her passport. There were a number of people that had brought their children with them. Everyone of them, from the ones that could not walk or even talk, to pre-schoolers, every one of them with a cell phone or a tablet in front of their faces.

We have failed them miserably.

Yup, that is another contributing factor.

As @"Abnarty" said above:

Also, there seemed to be (at least in my experience) a healthy dose of multigenerational mixing socially. Kids were around hearing old folks talk. They learned their position in that constellation. They were not secluded to nothing more than inexperienced kids telling each other dumb s*** on the internet.

Ignorance is a vacuum, and it seeks answers. In the absence of wiser, more experienced heads to educate and provide those answers, Ignorance will fins it's own answers, usually having to make them up on the spot, and then distribute them to other inquiring minds in the effort to fill the vacuum of ignorance. The internet makes that dispersal and dissemination far easier in the modern world than it once was - "inexperienced kids telling each other dumb s*** on the internet. "

What makes it even worse is the "Party of Hatred, Fear, and No Hope" ramps them up even more with a special brand of "disinformation" - a brand that we used to call "lies and more lies, and DAMNED lies!" when I was a young man. The internet makes dispersal and dissemination of that much easier, too, and kids are not being limited in their exposure to it nor are they being corrected and disabused of the erroneous notions they are soaking up from those screens by their elders.

That constant screen-time, in the near-total absence of outside time to learn and explore, in the absence of correction and guidance by wiser heads, can't be a good thing for children seeking answers.

They'll find the wrong ones.

And more people will die.

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