tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992064785578189137.post8826702046630062534..comments2023-06-12T08:08:03.452-07:00Comments on michael nagle's blog: school's biggest failure: taking away our sense of purpose and directionMichael Naglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968368143277245108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992064785578189137.post-88566522984434278512010-02-16T12:58:56.161-08:002010-02-16T12:58:56.161-08:00naglenaglenagle.blogspot.com; You saved my day aga...naglenaglenagle.blogspot.com; You saved my day again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992064785578189137.post-1819968208878682492008-09-28T14:49:00.000-07:002008-09-28T14:49:00.000-07:00re: ChrisI don't think a cosmological interpretati...re: Chris<BR/><BR/>I don't think a cosmological interpretation of human life is necessary to appreciate that men can strive to live lives more personally significant than stuff for a while unto death. <BR/><BR/>Michael's post speaks to a desire for students to retain an investment in life informed enough to make a wise decision about the type of stuff that they would like to do for a while. I think that's fairly practical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992064785578189137.post-23720302797309853422008-09-20T09:26:00.000-07:002008-09-20T09:26:00.000-07:00I think that there's way more going on here than y...I think that there's way more going on here than you're acknowledging:<BR/><BR/>1.) Novelty sparks interest - as you get older, less is novel, therefore less sparks interest. Whether this is a significant cause is up for debate, but the fact of it is incontrovertible. <BR/><BR/>2.) Society is unnatural - 20k years ago we would have been running around killing animals, raping, etc. Life was exciting, hard, and confusing. These days, everything's easy. There's no -need- to make anything difficult because everything is so easy. What do you think school should be preparing people for, exactly?<BR/><BR/>3.) The concept of "one true calling" or "the point of life" is, in my opinion, idealistic BS. You are born, you do some stuff for a while, you die. You can interpret your life in terms of some cosmology or another, but you're going to be missing out on communication with the 99% of humanity that just slogs from day to day, waiting to die. <BR/><BR/>As with everything, I think the matter is much more complex than you're making it out to be. School may be a salient factor, but requiring "school or no school" or "school or radically different school" is ignoring the structural and ultimately vastly interrelated nature of all things.chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07773108899149984548noreply@blogger.com