Read that lengthy Atlantic article. I’ll wait. Read it? Good. Let’s proceed.
“That is insane.” was a common complaint.
Watch the documentary of “The Land” by Erin Davis and read the article.
At the end, my wife and I turned to each other and chorused.
“No! That is fucking awesome!”
I strongly believe we are heading to a crisis within American (and UK) industry, science and technology due to the over-protective parenting style.
We want better for our kids, and “better” equates as safer in a lot of our culture when it comes to our future.
But “safer” isn’t “better” when the outcome 40 years later is worse because we no longer have children who are now adults who are willing to take risks and “figure it out on their own.”
And then we lose.
We lose because future industry leaders in other cultures won’t have that risk averse nature.
We lose because future industry leaders in other cultures will be willing to figure it out on their own.
We lose because future industry leaders in other cultures are willing to experiment.
We lose because future industry leaders in other cultures are willing to set fire to things.
And we lose because future industry leaders understand that there isn’t anybody ready to swoop in and save them from themselves.