mmodern life is madness think about this a lot when high or rather its only manifest then, sober things blur and cant be perceived with ground-level clarity but seriously bananas thinking about forest primeval right now an ancient temperate hardwood Wald
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the british forgot how to cure scurvy this case is instructive
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I don't think Gibbon was silly to place blame for the second greatest Fall on Rome's loss of virtue the Romans of the Empire were very clearly not the Romans of the high Republic there had been too many fat saecula, maybe Old things forgotten and then their memory forgotten
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Here you see a good point! But doubly so or more when you consider that the most important things--experiences, moods, heart-felt zeitgeists, trials, morals--are not (well) transmitted by writing https://twitter.com/josephtoretti/status/1054283331985010689?s=19 …
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“if a thing is not passed down over two generations it might just be lost” This is why writing was so significant.
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Many things cannot be transferred by writing! Probably the most important things
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The basic idea can be improved on— the preserving of the Lesson. Even now there is video and soon there will be instructive virtual reality modules.
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And these too will fail! For now no one will have a human teacher, and this too will be a great change with accompanying loss of the mos maiorum
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The solution to your fear would be integration. Just as mentors use writing in lessons, so they would use new technologies. 1. Prioritize children 2. Don’t sacrifice effectiveness for convenience
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technological solutionism is bae, conquer nature utterly
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