Wealth over well-being was a choice that was made by movers and shakers and slipped into the breakfast cereal of our citizens and citizens-to-be long before Reagan. At the risk of repeating what I have said a million times prior, capitalism, competition, preparation for employment to drive the national economy, making bank, and ‘keeping …
Wealth over well-being was a choice that was made by movers and shakers and slipped into the breakfast cereal of our citizens and citizens-to-be long before Reagan. At the risk of repeating what I have said a million times prior, capitalism, competition, preparation for employment to drive the national economy, making bank, and ‘keeping up with or beating the Joneses’ have been the common core curriculum in our schools since long before that miserable term was invented. The schools which so many remember so fondly are and have always been primarily about duty, discipline, calculations, evaluations, one’s cumulative file, behavioral modification, obedience, national pride and security, and passivity. Pissy PISA scores dominate the attention of educators and others who worry more about bettering the Chinese than advancing intellectual pursuits, science, and sanity. Well-being has never even registered on the radar or shown up on the horizon. As long as people, and particularly people who should know better (you know who I am talking about), continue to deny that fact, we will plunge headlong down that same treacherous path. Trump and Musk represent it well.
Wealth over well-being was a choice that was made by movers and shakers and slipped into the breakfast cereal of our citizens and citizens-to-be long before Reagan. At the risk of repeating what I have said a million times prior, capitalism, competition, preparation for employment to drive the national economy, making bank, and ‘keeping up with or beating the Joneses’ have been the common core curriculum in our schools since long before that miserable term was invented. The schools which so many remember so fondly are and have always been primarily about duty, discipline, calculations, evaluations, one’s cumulative file, behavioral modification, obedience, national pride and security, and passivity. Pissy PISA scores dominate the attention of educators and others who worry more about bettering the Chinese than advancing intellectual pursuits, science, and sanity. Well-being has never even registered on the radar or shown up on the horizon. As long as people, and particularly people who should know better (you know who I am talking about), continue to deny that fact, we will plunge headlong down that same treacherous path. Trump and Musk represent it well.