Let us now turn to possible solutions. For this final installment, I’ll use a bullet point format. Let’s start with a couple of the solutions Galloway introduces in his TED Talk, which was talked about in the first part of this series. • Age-gate Social Media—As mentioned earlier, Galloway suggests that access to social media […]

In my last post I ended by talking about information scientists and cyberneticists of the 1940s, 50s, and into the 60s, and their wish to divorce information from body, to dissociate body from mind. Why on Earth would these scientists knowingly wish to bring on such divorce, such dissociation? In her book How We Became […]

Louis Cozolino’s book The Social Neuroscience of Education is a great book. It warms the cockles of my Nurturant Parent heart. Sadly, it does not go far enough. In fact, it only goes fifty percent of the way there. By “there” what do I mean? In a recent post I talked about framing and cultural cognitive […]

As a country, does the U.S. love her children? This is the question that Scott Galloway asks in his TED Talk delivered to an audience in Vancouver BC, April 2024. There is a YouTube recording of this presentation viewed, at last count, by over 6.3 million people.[1] Galloway has entitled his talk How the US […]

My YouTube feed threw up a video that caught my attention. It’s entitled Why Everyone Stopped Reading by Jared Henderson.[1] This YouTube video profiles an article that appeared in The Atlantic by Rose Horowitch entitled The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books. Henderson effectively tells us that “whole book reading” is on the decline. According […]