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    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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