General Discussion

Let's hope the internet and our drift away from solid, old-fashioned core education does not allow humanity to devolve and lose our instinctive, innocent curiosity of things and desire to learn about everything.

Our instinct to play and experiment to learn throughout our lives is instinctive in both humans and animals and it requires constant face-to-face exposure to other humans and Mother Nature, not face-to-screen with a cell phone, tablet or computer.

What we're losing is our innate craving to learn, our ability to think and create independently and rationally as well as our sense of the need for human community.

My father's biggest problem with me as a child was my borrowing his tools to disassemble everything in our house just to see how they were made and to understand how stuff works. I'm not seeing that level of curiosity in our youth much these days.

About all I get these days for my old-fashioned thinking, curiosity and thoroughness is resentment. Even as an engineer (retired), I fear the direction the internet and consumerism is taking us.

KY rant done.....

Thanks for posting this important topic, Milestogo.......