With such anemic exposure to real world issues, actions to reverse America's dumbing-down evaporate.
Ellen deftly ties together many environmental and economic concepts to define why the world has moved into the crushing space between a "rock" and a "hard place." But the healthy space between "rock and hard place" does not grow, if the "W isdom of the Crowds" remains an empty self-congratulatory phrase. And the "wisdom of the crowds" will not grow if larger crowds don't work with those who experience harsh lives amidst hard fields.
Ask yourself, what sticks in your memory and binds your character better what you heard in a classroom lecture, read last month in the newspaper, watched weeks ago on televised news fark, or retained from having built something with hands and heart that bettered your or others lives?
Without serving and doing, what we learn in reading and listening is soon forgotten --- if not tied to actions that make a difference and leave an indelible imprint. When tied to actions that made a difference, our collective memories make those actions part of a healthy character and insightful, sharpened IQ.
Yes, more citizens should know what Life Rules reminds us:
"We are stealing our present pleasures from tomorrow's children.
"This is only logical: a species cannot persist over the long term if one generation systematically spends down what the next generation needs to live on.
"In other words, we're doing to the planet what we've done to our financial system: postponing inevitable bankruptcy and persisting in the habit of living beyond our means by borrowing from the future, hiding in the falsehood that we can ever actually pay back what we've spent and lost, or that we even intend to.
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