Postman saw that schooling created a unique cultural artefact, driven by literacy - childhood. He thought TV…

Postman saw that schooling created a unique cultural artefact, driven by literacy - childhood. He thought TV would reverse the process and return children to the place they occupied for centuries, the adult world. He missed I think that schools did the reverse. /1 https://t.co/qcbqRxS4L3

We went from a world where children occupied the adult world, including of work, from a young age. To a school world where a child and adult world became two separate worlds. To now, a world where the adult world has been remade as a giant school, culturally. /2

We swapped a world where everybody was an adult, to a world where everybody is a child. An adolescent. That's our cultural framework. Adults well into their last years of life still use the same framings of social life they learn in high school. /3

Popularity as the currency of social life, including political life. Status hierarchies of imitative rivalry. The entire world of work and politics is this, now. Spend 10 minutes on Linkedin if you don't believe it. Or 'live with' a pandemic, because that's popular. /end