In so many ways out institutions are flawed, fearful, and incapable of providing for a changing future. We still try to hold on to "the illusion of privacy" on the internet and in our personal dealings with media, when all around us we are "tracked, profiled, and analyzed" at least as potential customers,
Our schools will not "go paperless" into the virtual or even the experiential world because selling books and pencils is how we make our profits. Our "grade schools" are not supported (especially our teachers) while we seek some "miraculous change" that will make "learning automatic." Human beings want learning to be like sleep, easy and comfortable and non-combative. But learning is anything but...
We expect results without effort (online classes are great; I just fill out the worksheets and they hand me the degree), jobs without expertise, success without application. We try to emulate the "music man" of musical theatre --- just "think the note and you will be able to play that French Horn, or Bassoon, or whatever..."
Like our oft-mentioned President -- we limit ourselves to present knowledge and never "blow past' the parameters of current understanding." We flaunt our stupidity as if it were superior to knowledge -- safe in the belief that we will not be challenged because we believe something to be true.
Resist; resist; resist. Life is not an "idiocracy."
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