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In reply to the discussion: Pushing the idea that agitators led protesters into bad behavior is absurd [View all]cachukis
(4,214 posts)I was lucky to have elders in my life and had the conversations.
What I was intimating, was we would seek the Oracle in our studies. We contemplated why Eisenhower built the Interstate System. We learned that the first skyscrapers had base walls many feet thick. We wondered how cathedrals stayed erect. We learned about buttress.
Today, kids look up a USA today explanation and are experts.
I watched and lived the transformation of youngsters that began in 2007 with the introduction of the smart phone. I taught high school surrounded by public housing until 2017.
The impact of social media has become more pervasive since. It has replaced much introspection with immediacy.
Long term implications are just that, long term.
Too complicated for here.