Professor J,
First, at our house we are on our 4th consecutive day
without electricity. So I'm doing a bit of outpost blogging today (an ode to
brevity). I'll expound next time...hopefully from a well lit and
toasty warm writer's loft.
Apart from cataclysmic events, the erosion of old thinking and an influx of new ideas,
and realizing that something isn’t right and addressing it, it seems that you
are saying:
That we need to ask people what they’ve been learning or pondering lately (and wait for blank and/or confused expressions) instead of just what they are reading/watching.
Focus and stop multitasking and wasting time.
Constantly question our own thinking as well as everyone else’s as well as work hard to recognize our own biases and other things that might skew our opinions.
And how to get people to do these things, when, as you point
out, our culture worships busyness to such a point that people who should have
leisure time to think deeply and discuss important ideas as well as invest in
others are caught up in an endless cycle of activity? Activity that is either
diversionary or necessary. How to go
about such a complete shift in thinking and culture?
Must we not start with the individual? Even then the task as
you’ve outlined it seems Herclulean. Might
you give a historical example of people in similar circumstances doing the
necessary things to prevent ruin? Individual examples are easy enough to come
by but what of nations and cultures?
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