"Teaching Moments"

Every time society is about to meltdown, a millionaire news host will go on and tell us "this is a pivotal and 'teaching' moment." Most of the time the "lesson" they tell us is horse shit, platitude salad...but aside from that...no, these can't be our teaching moments. EVERY conversation is a teaching moment...if you only learn important lessons each time the world is on fire (even assuming you perfectly absorb the wisdom of these moments) ...1) you are ignorant; 2) civilization is well on its way to extinction.

Everyone keeps playing this game of "magical thinking"...where we fantasize that some "teaching" event will come along, all the people who have no reasoning skills at all will magically "wake up," and we'll all start to make sound decisions. Guess what, that is nonsense and we will never become an enlightened civilization without doing the work. We need to communicate more often and better, eradicate corruption, improve our understanding, improve the mechanisms of society, improve our education system, improve our checks and balances...and none of it will come through osmosis or magical miasma.

You want a "teaching moment"? I got a lesson for you, START TODAY, stop wishing, organize, pool resources, communicate with the people immediately around you that you can reach, learn from history, and CONTINUALLY improve yourself.