"Our greatest defense against any RDF is an informed, questioning, and adaptive mind." This. This is the antidote and it starts at home. Ponder, who has the incentive to teach children how to think critically? Who prefers and benefits from future generations inability to think critically? Who prefers a populous of dopamine addicted scrollers who are soon to be brain-chip enabled with infinite hot-quips. (sorta like this one)
In 1841, three years before Samuel Morse's famous "What Hath God Wrought!" telegraph measage. Edgar Allen Poe published his short story, "A Descent Into the Maelstrom," recounting the disastrous fate of a whaling ship unable to escape the upside-down tornado in mid-ocean. All except for the sailor narrating the story, who survived by noticing that in the midst of the chaos it was still possible to rise to the surface. Marshall McLuhan often used this metaphor to describe our "modern" lives and our own potential path towards saying alive in a paradigm-vortex . . . !!
"Our greatest defense against any RDF is an informed, questioning, and adaptive mind." This. This is the antidote and it starts at home. Ponder, who has the incentive to teach children how to think critically? Who prefers and benefits from future generations inability to think critically? Who prefers a populous of dopamine addicted scrollers who are soon to be brain-chip enabled with infinite hot-quips. (sorta like this one)
In 1841, three years before Samuel Morse's famous "What Hath God Wrought!" telegraph measage. Edgar Allen Poe published his short story, "A Descent Into the Maelstrom," recounting the disastrous fate of a whaling ship unable to escape the upside-down tornado in mid-ocean. All except for the sailor narrating the story, who survived by noticing that in the midst of the chaos it was still possible to rise to the surface. Marshall McLuhan often used this metaphor to describe our "modern" lives and our own potential path towards saying alive in a paradigm-vortex . . . !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Descent_into_the_Maelstr%C3%B6m