Everything I ever needed to know I learned in Kindergarten… and it’s no longer relevant!
* Share everything (Needles are a no-no)
* Play fair (Like our Sports Heros always do)
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you (Not!)
* Live a balanced life (Impossible)
* Take a nap every afternoon (Time is the currency of the 21st Century)
* Be aware of wonder (It helps in a global financial crisis)
* Goldfish and hamsters die. So do we. (What doesn’t kill you, only delays the inevitable)
* Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word, the biggest word of all – LOOK (On the other hand, ignorance is bliss)
So far I’m learning that what we thought we knew doesn’t seem to work and what we try to teach may not actually be relevant. Therefore, our methods may be good but if the content doesn’t matter, what’s the use?
Consider the global financial crisis. Perhaps you adhere to communist principles of economics. Perhaps you're a capitalist. What does it matter now? Communism proved to be a poor system of economics and today, Capital markets are in a frenzy to stabilize a sinking Titanic.
The common reaction is to point the finger, to blame, to take sides. What if the sides themselves ARE the problem? Perhaps we need a new side, a third side that nullifies and eliminates the opposing sides to which we are accustomed. Something is emerging that is so-far, undefinable. We don’t know it and we try to label it yet it is bigger than all of us. And it is the destiny of our culture of uncertainty. We are on a collision course with an unknown future and we can’t let go of our security blanket called ‘ignorance.’
Ignorance is thinking we already know. The airwaves are filled with experts giving opinions, the value of which, if added together, would equal our clarity concerning why we are here in the first place. Ludicrous. It’s a senseless contradiction at the pinnacle of failure. How silly. (posted 11/2/08)
