29 April

There was once not long ago no separate culture or space for children. They were just little adults, working alongside adults, at work. It was an entirely adult world. Then we invented schools, and suddenly there were two worlds, child and adult. Then we made schooling universal, at which point the adult world began to disappear, and the entire lifespan was now a child/school culture because kids left school and then remade the adult world in its image. That's us today, why I post about it a lot. We turned our entire culture upside down. We now live in a world of permanent adolescent childhood. How we see, feel and act in the world is driven by the culture we learn at school. Social media platforms use the same cultural framework. It's everything. We're about to vote in an election. Elections are pure adolescent schoolyard, granting top dog status to the most popular kids. Mass elections didn't exist before schools, this isn't an analogy.