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minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months ago “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” —G.K. Chesterton should we really be bringing our kids up to be nice little conformant drones?
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months ago “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.” [emphasis added] —Ursula K. Le Guin teach them rebellion and revolution and defiance, teach them to dream about a better world, teach them right to repair and reverse engineering and open source, teach them science and technology and engineering and art and design are all interlinked and that economists have no idea what they’re doing, teach them who the dragons are, teach them resilience and sustainability and regeneration, teach them other people have feelings too don’t teach them conformity and obedience and compliance
minus-squareTrousersMcPants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoYou sound like a miserable POS, sorry
should we really be bringing our kids up to be nice little conformant drones?
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teach them rebellion and revolution and defiance, teach them to dream about a better world, teach them right to repair and reverse engineering and open source, teach them science and technology and engineering and art and design are all interlinked and that economists have no idea what they’re doing, teach them who the dragons are, teach them resilience and sustainability and regeneration, teach them other people have feelings too
don’t teach them conformity and obedience and compliance
You sound like a miserable POS, sorry