The basic act of segregating children from adult life in schools caused a violent change to our societies,…

The basic act of segregating children from adult life in schools caused a violent change to our societies, that we’re still living through (and not understanding). When you put people together, they form a ‘culture’. That becomes their world. /1 https://t.co/O4vqqkmbtA

By segregating childhood off from adult life, we created places where children developed a culture of their own. School culture. That became their world. When we then universalised schooling, that became all of our world. /2

Because when kids leave school they take their culture with them. What else would they do? It’s all they know. And then they started transforming the adult world, into that same school culture. /3

Which is why we’re now absolutely dominated by populism. Because popularity is the currency of school life. Populism *is* school culture. So the kids remade our adult world as a populist culture too. Again, it’s all they knew. /4

Every day look at these platforms, the battling groups or teams, fighting for status for themselves and their ideas. It’s just the schoolyard. Literally, not by analogy. Status games, or team sports as I call them /5

We never leave high school now. Because adult society is just a giant high school. Elections elect our Prom Kings and Queens. Again, not an analogy. The actual cultural reality. /end