A lot of articles like this. But in almost none of the “analyses” of reasons (Covid, anxieties, home hardship, etc.) does anyone discuss relevance. When schools insist upon “buckling down” to pre-Covid “normalcy” and argue about banning tech from classrooms and curriculum, it’s a willful turning away from students’ lives.
How did Buddhism stretch so far across South Asia and farther Eastward? Schools, libraries, and teachers, of course.
Why do we spend our time laboring for others and base our education towards this purpose? Bertrand Russell and Buckminster Fuller have some ideas on that. A decent summary of their positions and what we might question more aggressively.
A surreal and beautiful exchange in isolation, translated by Alison Entrekin. “In the current scenario—which isolates everything, and everyone, between parentheses. Bodies and time.” Cue Miles Davis.
An amazing four minutes, but includes a “Making Of” feature and a brief video history on the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, transient beauty.
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