The family of humankind's head...
first of all let's talk briefly about family: we'll start with the family doctor. I remember when the family doctor was practically a part of the extended family. I say this because we often saw that doctor as often as we saw our aunts and uncles and their families and these doctors often had the same kinds of questions, the same kind of concern for our well-being. And in those days gone by we we even let the family doctor swab our mucous, and keep our personal medical record right there in the office. Nowadays they might peek in your orifices and those medical records are stored in "the cloud" just to ease as our minds so they to can drift with the clouds.
Today too you are lucky if you see the same doctor twice in a row or that he or she can even pronounce your name. It would seem we have left our health to strangers and forfeited our vital data to some grand floating benevolent server called "the cloud". Presumably we have nothing better to do... then throw caution to the wind.
But truthfully it is as though our heads were only buried in the sand while all our capacities for maintaining our lives are lost.
One day perhaps centuries in the future we might be required to know how to navigate by the stars, or how to start a fire or feed our children by foraging for wild foods. This is not to say we should all become survivalists but we should not ignore the worst case scenarios of natural or man-made disasters.
So I ask how does relinquishing all control of all our vital information serve us? And what just does this say about our educational system?
now back to our original topic of the family, the family of humankind.
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