I’ve been really trying lately. So in the interest of expanding my viewpoints, last night I decided to flip over to Glenn Beck to see what he was talking about. Turns out he was talking about this with James Howard Kunstler. I leaned back in my chair and sighed, waiting to see where he was going with this interview, and then this gem came out of Beck’s mouth:
I think our grandparents would be ashamed of us. If they lived through the Great Depression, they taught us these things for a reason, to be able to be self-reliant in times that were really, really tough.
And we`re so arrogant now that we think that we could — that`ll never happen to us. We can never go through those kinds of tough times, which I think is a total lie that we tell ourselves.
But we`re not even teaching how to farm. Most people don`t have any idea how to grow their own food. They have no idea how the soil works or anything like it.
The whole point of this quote and my earlier post was that we’re not doing a good enough job of preparing our children to understand the environmental realities of the present and future. Future posts here will be related to what this education might look like in public schools. By no means do I pretend to have any of the answers, but it’s the conversation and the journey that matters. Dina starts some of it here.
The entire Beck transcript can be read here.