Wow, just wow… What are we becoming?
mitch @ 4:01 pm on October 18, 2006
I’m refering to a post about a school thats banning the game of “tag” and other contact games children might like to play during recess the story is linked up on slashdot. I mean really… what is this world comming to? Well, not really the world, but the US… and from what I’ve heard… England. We both seem to be responding to this notion that these things are bad for children. I, however, believe that this will screw them up even more, and be bad for the economy as a whole. “Playing it safe” is not a mantra that should be followed in all circumstances. This stifles creativity, individuality, and ingenuity. In order to advance as an individual, and as a society, you need people that are free thinkers, you need people that will “think outside the box”, they need to challenge the system. How are they supposed to do this when adults have pre-thought their paths for them every step they make? I understand that they are only trying to protect them from getting hurt, but that is all part of life. There is pain in life, and if you protect them from making the little mistakes here and there preventing them from having to deal with minor consequences of those mistakes, what happens when the big ones come along? Or it then becomes their responcibility to govern others? (such as they themselves becoming parents)
Anything that stops or tries to prevent these problems, inhibits free thinking which will become a very bad thing. Staying aware and growing with the world around you is the only thing that will keep us alive. We need to change and adapt to the changing world around us, or become extinct. It is the way the world is, and the way it always has been.
Questioning, and challenging the world around me, the “norms” so to speak. Growing and changing as I learn more about the world around me, not immediately trusting anything until I’ve looked into it enough to make a decision about it. I don’t know of any other way to really live to be honest. Doing anything less makes you a lemming, with no right to complain and no right to offer guidance, and not much of a life in the first place.
