Someone wrote the following for me and I would like to read more along the same lines. What do you suggest?
A lot of our problems are *because of* modernity. Many modern aspects have harmed us directly.
* the nuclear family (mom, dad and kids in a house) without the network and support of extended family and friends integrated into our lives and parenting
* two parents working away from home so kids are alone even more and parents are overwhelmed and burnt out
* going to work away from home/lots of travel alone for the adults so their is very little time
* separating our kids from having familial/communal/safe adults around by sending them to school
* compulsory education where kids don't feel meaningfully engaged in learning
* adults doing tasks/work (our jobs) not meaningfully associated with our own lives, eating and well being
* removing our elders from the community/family so we lose the support, wisdom, experience, and leadership of our elders (and they have lost that they carry that wisdom)
* separating kids from other ages so they lose the wisdom and modeling of living at all ages and the capacity to help other ages
* making kids learn at the same pace as everyone else
* making kids learn set things rather than follow their interest
* making kids learn from books rather than learn with their bodies
* a culture of comparison and acquiring that leaves people eternally dissatisfied and ashamed
* an eternally speeding-up culture where we feel perpetually rushed and overwhelmed
* the isms – sexism, classism, racism, ableism, etc. and all its oppressions
* a material culture where we have lost touch with our relationship to, dependence on and solace within nature
* and so much more
by flytohappiness
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