"The flattening is not just a crisis of the mind. It is a loss of the senses. We see it in the literal disappearance of the fine line. Hey, what happened? They discontinued teaching cursive?"
"If we stop training the hand to draw distinctions, why are we surprised when the eye stops looking for them? And when the eye stops looking, the mind stops expecting them."
"Children are taught to distinguish shapes and learn words, and they are often fiercely literal in their beliefs and definitions. We often find these parsings annoying, evasive, or even willfully obstinate."
"Alice Miller, the psychoanalyst, argued that the child who perceives accurately and insists on it is often the one corrected into compliance."
The erosion of clear distinctions between truth and falsehood signifies a deeper crisis of perception and understanding. The decline in teaching cursive writing symbolizes a loss of the ability to discern nuances. Children naturally enforce critical differences, but societal pressures often suppress this capacity for discernment. This suppression leads to a generation that struggles to recognize and articulate distinctions, raising concerns about the future of critical thinking and awareness of reality.
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