Wow! Acura must be going for the award of most socially and environmentally irresponsible. They’ve gone from Acura as the ultimate in aggression to Acura (and everything else) as the mark of extreme luxury. If we all follow their examples, we’ll self-destruct sooner than later.
Psychological Violence Against Children – A Commentary on a Huffington Post Article
What If Everybody Understood Child Development by Rae Pica (Huffington Post).
But, we don’t want children to learn, to think, to be creative, to be motivated, to know how to participate in society, or to be decent human beings. Such things don’t benefit the rich and powerful, whose children will be provided the best learning experiences despite the dreadful things public schools are encouraged or forced to do.
When I was a teacher, the principal demanded silence in the cafeteria. She said she’d give a prize to the most quiet class. During our first lunch, my 5th/6th grade kids asked if they had to be quiet. I asked if they wanted the prize. They said, “no.” So, we talked. That was over 30 years ago. It’s just getting worse.
All of the child-strangling things you mention, which also include The Common Core Standards and high-stakes testing, are acts of psychological violence. As a society, we just ignore and ask for more.
Problems with Reclaimed Water (… and Our Ways of Thinking and Acting)
via A KPHO CBS News Story on Reclaimed Water in Flagstaff (and elsewhere) – Click Here..
This story demonstrates problems with the way we think and act. Our thinking is linear — looking for simple causal relationships, while taking impulsive actions without considering complex interrelationships. We continue to think that we can manipulate and control our environments, only to find that we can’t. Then, we try to implement yet another way to control what has gone out of control. What we really need to do is minimize efforts to control our environments and to look at problems as situated in multiple interacting systems (cultural, social, biological, ecological, chemical, and so forth).