This summer I came to a different conclusion.
I've made a habit of going to going out with my son.
The first year he was alive it was too hot that summer. We read a lot instead, and there aren't many toddlers on the planet who have been read as many words as mine.
The second year, we went for walks in his stroller but he wasn't really mobile enough to go to a park for real, so we'd stop and swing on a swing now and again but not much else, and the focus was walking.
This year is the third year, and we've gone to the park from early spring until late fall. I got into the rhythm of going friday after work, twice or three times on Saturday, twice or three times on Sunday, and at least once on Monday. (Always once in the morning and once in the evening, and some days before supper and after supper)
I did this because I'm nuts and really think it's important to be getting outside like that and reading a ton and doing all these things, but I don't think everyone should hold themselves to the same standards I keep. However, one thing I eventually realized is that we basically had the park to ourselves. It wasn't just one park we went to, either. We went to several, and we almost always had them to ourselves.
We went on walking paths, had them to ourselves. We went to beaches, had them to ourselves.
I've called this phemonenon "living in ghost world". Walking around an empty world with no people, no parents, not even any kids.
I think people end up making the wrong arguments. I heard some people saying "Oh, parents don't have the money to do stuff with their kids", but I didn't spend a penny going to the park, walking on the walking trail, going to the beach (It wasn't anything fancy, just a rocky outcropping next to a creek you could sit on). These things were free, but nobody else was there. Sure, perhaps parents are working a lot, but I don't think most households have both parents working straight 12 or 16 hour days, there are such things as days off. You'd expect at least some parents would be able to spend an hour at the park.
I think it's devices.
I think after a long day's work, the parents sit on their phones, the kids sit on their tablets, and they just sit there consuming content. It's one of the few models that makes any sense to me. Even for parents who don't work (It isn't like welfare went away), why go outside when you can just slap a tablet in their hands and keep them quiet?
But the fact is, we are seeing the negative consequences of doing what everyone does. Parents have already built themselves up to whatever extent they will, but kids have not and if they don't get a chance to experience the world they'll head out not realizing there's an amazing creation just outside their door. If they aren't read to early, they won't have a chance to realize they have a grand cultural inheritance. If they aren't being taught letters and numbers early, then they'll lose the chance for their minds to wire themselves to these unintuitive concepts early. If they don't have morality taught to them early, they'll fall prey to the problems of liberal ideology (intended to apply to a state) becoming a totalizing ideology and the harm that causes.
I've made a habit of going to going out with my son.
The first year he was alive it was too hot that summer. We read a lot instead, and there aren't many toddlers on the planet who have been read as many words as mine.
The second year, we went for walks in his stroller but he wasn't really mobile enough to go to a park for real, so we'd stop and swing on a swing now and again but not much else, and the focus was walking.
This year is the third year, and we've gone to the park from early spring until late fall. I got into the rhythm of going friday after work, twice or three times on Saturday, twice or three times on Sunday, and at least once on Monday. (Always once in the morning and once in the evening, and some days before supper and after supper)
I did this because I'm nuts and really think it's important to be getting outside like that and reading a ton and doing all these things, but I don't think everyone should hold themselves to the same standards I keep. However, one thing I eventually realized is that we basically had the park to ourselves. It wasn't just one park we went to, either. We went to several, and we almost always had them to ourselves.
We went on walking paths, had them to ourselves. We went to beaches, had them to ourselves.
I've called this phemonenon "living in ghost world". Walking around an empty world with no people, no parents, not even any kids.
I think people end up making the wrong arguments. I heard some people saying "Oh, parents don't have the money to do stuff with their kids", but I didn't spend a penny going to the park, walking on the walking trail, going to the beach (It wasn't anything fancy, just a rocky outcropping next to a creek you could sit on). These things were free, but nobody else was there. Sure, perhaps parents are working a lot, but I don't think most households have both parents working straight 12 or 16 hour days, there are such things as days off. You'd expect at least some parents would be able to spend an hour at the park.
I think it's devices.
I think after a long day's work, the parents sit on their phones, the kids sit on their tablets, and they just sit there consuming content. It's one of the few models that makes any sense to me. Even for parents who don't work (It isn't like welfare went away), why go outside when you can just slap a tablet in their hands and keep them quiet?
But the fact is, we are seeing the negative consequences of doing what everyone does. Parents have already built themselves up to whatever extent they will, but kids have not and if they don't get a chance to experience the world they'll head out not realizing there's an amazing creation just outside their door. If they aren't read to early, they won't have a chance to realize they have a grand cultural inheritance. If they aren't being taught letters and numbers early, then they'll lose the chance for their minds to wire themselves to these unintuitive concepts early. If they don't have morality taught to them early, they'll fall prey to the problems of liberal ideology (intended to apply to a state) becoming a totalizing ideology and the harm that causes.
I'm just glad no former Marines were around or a real tragedy could have occurred. Thankfully nobody important got hurt (according to the state of New York at least).
With just a little more money they could lobby to have the laws of physics repealed.
I was sitting with my dad one day and we figured taking a dash-8 plane off the ground was probably about 5MW of energy. Good luck doing that with even 50 years from now technology, let alone today. You might be able to electrify light aircraft for short trips, but nothing commercial.
I was sitting with my dad one day and we figured taking a dash-8 plane off the ground was probably about 5MW of energy. Good luck doing that with even 50 years from now technology, let alone today. You might be able to electrify light aircraft for short trips, but nothing commercial.
State experts have confirmed that this is just what water smells like, stop being so homophobic all the time.
I had a LinkedIn until the trucker convoy. Once they leaked they leaked the information of the donors I realized I didn't want to be on big tech with my real name anymore.
The irony of one of the multi-millionaires of the world who specifically stuck her fat fingers into the political process hoping to tilt the scales complaining that someone else stuck his fingers into the political process hoping to tilt the scales is palpable. It isn't like Rosie O'Donnell is a coal miner. She's a c list celebrity.
I was incredulous, but then I saw "Seattle".
It really does remind you of some of those end of the world things, where when's the world doesn't end, most people just walk away but true believers keep on coming up with reasons why they got the math wrong or whatever.
It really does remind you of some of those end of the world things, where when's the world doesn't end, most people just walk away but true believers keep on coming up with reasons why they got the math wrong or whatever.
The "Biden was in meetings with important people" line was so stupid as to be self-defeating.
Everyone who has ever been in a meeting with important people has had the experience of either themselves or someone else in the meeting dozing off. It just happens. So literally being in a meeting with important people doesn't actually mean that you were contributing, and it doesn't mean you were in good form.
Everyone who has ever been in a meeting with important people has had the experience of either themselves or someone else in the meeting dozing off. It just happens. So literally being in a meeting with important people doesn't actually mean that you were contributing, and it doesn't mean you were in good form.
to Honda for having to take up the disgrace of being part of the French automaker Nissan. Hopefully Honda doesn't gain the levels of quality the French automaker is known for.
Truck kun in this case was western made truck and so did not ganbatte, trapping you forever in an isekai je nai.
Ironically, western truck kun should feel shame for their failure to achieve isekai praxis but because of western postmodern neomarxism just blames trains for the failure.
Deep down it knows something is wrong because it isn't living it's most authentic life even if it can't understand exactly why because it has never been taught that form of virtue. The gnawing feeling will leave western truck kun unfulfilled until it's dying day.
(This truck kun joke goes too hard. You thought it was a truck kun joke but it was me, DIO!)
Ironically, western truck kun should feel shame for their failure to achieve isekai praxis but because of western postmodern neomarxism just blames trains for the failure.
Deep down it knows something is wrong because it isn't living it's most authentic life even if it can't understand exactly why because it has never been taught that form of virtue. The gnawing feeling will leave western truck kun unfulfilled until it's dying day.
(This truck kun joke goes too hard. You thought it was a truck kun joke but it was me, DIO!)
Highly fatal viruses kill their hosts so fast they don't spread much as I recall. There were some really bad flus recently (past 15 years) but they died out almost immediately along with anyone who had them.
And as I like to say: "predictable and predicted"
Which makes it worse imo, it wasn't like nobody was warning if these consequences.
Which makes it worse imo, it wasn't like nobody was warning if these consequences.