BR55
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True but consider what children are being taught about their history and culture in todays educational system.I mean you're not wrong...
but part of the problem is that you don't know, what you don't know. Imagine the kids are standing in the library from Beauty & The Beast (only it's even larger). Which book do they pick up? Which book is important? How does this relate to everything else? That's what culture is all about - these are our stories, these are the parts of history that matter to us - and the why of both.
You know, what's what schooling USED to be for. "Learn this and it will help you learn other things."
Something else that I've talked about with a college professor friend is that kids these days are just plain incurious. He talks about regularly how if they don't already know it, then it's not important to know and they don't need to know it.
All these combinations mean that blaming just themselves is like blaming a cripple for not running a marathon. Sure they totally could, but it would be a lot easier on them if they had help and guidance.
Simply put the past was an unspeakably evil and oppressive time and theres absolutely nothing to learn from it. In fact anything older than five or so years should just be automatically thrown on the ash heap of history no questions asked.
As for the Literary Canon it's old and boring and written by Fucking White Males so we can throw that out too.
In fact that goes for every bit of culture you think off. If it's any older than a few years it's trash and you should go enjoy some newer and more inclusive.
I mean why would you learn about anything from our past? After all we are clearly at the apex of human civilization and everything that came before is unredeemable trash, including the current year as well once enough time passes but don't tell them that. Whig History for life bros.
Really as a culture we're just not taught to value ourselves or our society anymore. More than anything else we're taught to hate ourselves and never ever look inward and reflect.
It's a sad pathetic state of affairs.