Life Forces
We may get up every day and make the coffee, brush our teeth, in our routines, but around us the forces of change are reshaping our lives. The two forces themselves are tightly wound, globalism and the social hive that is the internet. Between the two of them, they are a bundle of creative destruction, and we're at the center of that storm.
Yet we are unprepared for this new order. Our schools are woefully behind in preparing the next generation for this new world.
A time-stamped method of learning doesn't work in this new world.
In the open-source world that is the internet, the hive of people, strangers working on a small part of a problem, can work faster and smarter than any one person or team on a shop floor. The work is distributed in new ways, and work itself takes on new forms. This type of working and learning-collaboratively-challenges the order of things. Hierarchical structures, like boss-floor manager-unit assembler evaporate. That causes anxiety.
"what's wrong with men today? Is it internet porn? Is it bad parenting? If they only worked harder. If they only stopped being so lazy. If they weren't so spoiled."
We're pointing the blame in the wrong direction. We should be looking outward at our social institutions that are preparing our young people for the world they will enter. We are failing them. It is not this latest generation who is at fault. It is all of us. We have prepared them for a life that no longer exists.
Barbara Ray
Psychology Today
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