That’s quite correct Aesop. You are using that spiritual perception, eh.

Recall also that not even Moses was allowed to go to the new land. Old energies and old genetic constructs must die, the Old Guard must die, if they want to get anything really new done.

Have you awakened from the Dream?

It’s also why the scientific community has so many orthodox unchallenged premises and presumptions. They get angsty whenever someone starts questioning the basics.

Good old American country of the brave, spreading freedom and liberty for all.

The result was that most of the laptops were not used for their intended purposes, some large percentage of them were trashed, and some were being used as things like door props, and nightlights because of the light output from their screens.

I take it from this example that the lesson is that, unless you are willing to make a large preliminary investment in changing a culture, just throwing things/technology at people who don’t/can’t appreciate what it’s benefits are–if they even recognize them as a “benefit”–will not do very much good.

What I said is something that every parent already knows and which has been repeatedly confirmed in scientific studies. No invocation of papal infallibility was required.

Is this sort of sniping from you absolutely necessary?

Thanks for the ex cathedra pronouncement. Been an education.

There are multiple layers of confusion in this statement.

“Of course Democrat presidential candidate Bill de Blasio attended a dinner honoring Robert Mugabe. The late dictator was the ruler Mayor de Blasio longs to be, and that Democrats long to have.”

Dems so often admire the strongman socialists willing to murder their opponents in order to bring socialism, and its cultural changes, to a society.

Aid fails in Africa just as it fails in the big-city ghettos full of poor people. Primarily culture. And, a similar “middle class flight” occurs for those few among the poor — when they have a chance to poor area, they leave. Leave, rather than stay and be a local example, role model, helper for others, so the poor community where they came from is impoverished further.

The problem of culture change is not new.
The need to begin training at birth is one reason Moses kept the Israelites in the wilderness until their Egyptian-influenced parents passed away.

Reagan: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

It’s not that easy. About 95% of a person’s character and personality are formed by the time they are six. This means that the parents are the overwhelming influence in a child’s development, and parents pass on the cultural values they inherited.

Unless you want to propose separating babies from their birth mothers, and that is a place I am not going.

Molly, I did some looking around and found you are not the only one who enjoyed the book. Hemingway was a big fan.

This passage: “To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.” which I found in a review of the book, is enough to whet my appetite. Thanks for the recommendation.