Have you ever thought to yourself, “I don’t know how I’d live without my smartphone/microwave/car”?
If so, this may give you pause.
I’ve been following Thomas Klaffke’s delightfully named newsletter, Creative Destruction, for a while now.
I find it full of, as he says, “thought-provoking perspectives and ideas to create a better future.”
The most recent edition to hit my inbox quoted the late John Taylor Gatto’s book Weapons of Mass Instruction (another delightful name).
The observation stopped me in my tracks:
“…[Gatto] asserts that modern society is now “composed of persons who cannot design, build, repair or even operate most of the devices upon which their lives depend” and that most things are in truth “literally unintelligible to them.”…”
Oh, the truth of that.
I don’t have an answer, but it’s something I plan to think about going forward.
“Knowledge” worker,
James
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