I'm reading a biography of John Adams. In the past, I've read about Genghis Kahn, George Custer, Chief Crazy Horse, Jean-Michel Basquiat and more. Each one of these is filled with revelations about the daily life, the human life, social and cultural dimensions of the time. Each one is a reminder of the power and the frailty of the human person, the vortex of issues that affect human decisions, the unpredictability of consequences.
We live in a sound-bite world, with sound-bite news, sound-bite commentaries, sound-bite candidacies and sound-bite attention spans. How do we educate young people to take time, pay attention, evaluate, make good decisions beyond their noses?
I don't have an answer. Do you?
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