At some point in the course of my lifetime, the USA has become an outtake from Lord of the Flies, with the accompanying chaos. We have more metal detectors in our schools than at our airports. We spend more to incarcerate people than we do to educate them in the elementary school system. And we yell at one another whether we know each other or not at almost every waking moment.
Instead of complementing the universe opened through applied technology for education, we leave our children alone with a machine, the personal computer, more fraught with peril than the TV our parents were blamed for plopping us in front of. And then we 'wonder and worry about the kids.'
There's enough hate right now in this country for everyone to have a heaping helping with plenty to spare and far more ways of spreading it faster than any of us could have ever imagined. Yes indeed, Mr. and Mrs. Orwell, this is the Brave New World, so put on a brave new world face.
-bill kenny
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