You rock! I enjoyed reading this as much as her article!! *applause*
I have been saying for some time, one of humanity's biggest societal mistakes, thus far, is in not employing the creativity of young people to help solve the world's problems. If we approached a certain aspect of raising children with a these-are-the-things-we-know-for-certain, and these-are-the-things-we-don't-know-enough-about, we'd not only be tapping into fresh thinking, we'd be raising children to respect us. As it stands now, young adults have to unlearn almost everything they're taught by western parents, if they want to have any sense of higher awareness at all. Religion keeps westerners away from the fire, blissfully ignorant and in fear that "knowledge" is what "god" despises somehow. The "self" is feared by westerners. Self-reflection is scarce. Westerners are required to accept salvation. A far cry from seeking enlightenment. Westerners put a deity (and a series of hierarchical deities) between themselves and Everything. Oneness cannot be experienced with deities inside.
Indeed, we live in a society that largely hampers and destroys creativity, as if by design. Children are not taught to want to experiment, test their thoughts and question where ideas come from, instead we are largely given a series of narratives, predetermined ideas, and school largely just tests us on whether we are able to reproduce these ideas, with little question about whether we know they are true, or how we can know if they are true.
I recently did a podcast entitled “Escaping the Brave New World: Defeating the Culture of Zeus” which talks about this question of what it means to be Promethean, and how that discussion might allow us to transcend all the false binaries of left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal, capitalists vs. socialists, the rich vs. the poor. I think you might enjoy that discussion.
You rock! I enjoyed reading this as much as her article!! *applause*
I have been saying for some time, one of humanity's biggest societal mistakes, thus far, is in not employing the creativity of young people to help solve the world's problems. If we approached a certain aspect of raising children with a these-are-the-things-we-know-for-certain, and these-are-the-things-we-don't-know-enough-about, we'd not only be tapping into fresh thinking, we'd be raising children to respect us. As it stands now, young adults have to unlearn almost everything they're taught by western parents, if they want to have any sense of higher awareness at all. Religion keeps westerners away from the fire, blissfully ignorant and in fear that "knowledge" is what "god" despises somehow. The "self" is feared by westerners. Self-reflection is scarce. Westerners are required to accept salvation. A far cry from seeking enlightenment. Westerners put a deity (and a series of hierarchical deities) between themselves and Everything. Oneness cannot be experienced with deities inside.
Dear Scott,
Indeed, we live in a society that largely hampers and destroys creativity, as if by design. Children are not taught to want to experiment, test their thoughts and question where ideas come from, instead we are largely given a series of narratives, predetermined ideas, and school largely just tests us on whether we are able to reproduce these ideas, with little question about whether we know they are true, or how we can know if they are true.
I recently did a podcast entitled “Escaping the Brave New World: Defeating the Culture of Zeus” which talks about this question of what it means to be Promethean, and how that discussion might allow us to transcend all the false binaries of left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal, capitalists vs. socialists, the rich vs. the poor. I think you might enjoy that discussion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy2wXxT1is4
Best,
David