Just a small point I would add about the history of schooling, while it is true that mass public schooling has only been with us for a few hundred years, schools have existed anywhere there has been written language and math, all civilizations both ancient and modern. The Mayans had schools, the Sumerians had schools 8000 years ago. These schools only ‘educated’ the elite and that has been the huge ’step forward’ in that now we ‘educate’ everyone, if you can call it that.
Reading and math can not be acquired from simply watching someone else with those skills read or work sums, unlike foraging, hunting, fishing, herbal medicine etc etc. Thus the necessity for schools. And in times past that very powerful advantage of ’secret’ knowledge was used to keep the majority in bondage to the few. It’s not all that much different today. Written language literally reshapes the brain in a physiological way. A couple more books: The Alphabet vs the Goddess and The Geography of Thought go into these subjects.
I was very conflicted about teaching my kids to read… but alas.. I succumbed to societal pressure and did.

As a side note, I also hated school. I was homeschooled my high school years, had some college and dropped out. I am now a healer and have several certifications as such but am largely self taught. I use various modalities with my clients; nutrition, herbs, energy work, hypnosis, body work. I am always learning. I think had I had a traditional education I wouldn’t be nearly as inquisitive and intuitive.

Keelia

Thanks, scout!

From your very first sentence, you attempt to “fix reality in stone” by making a definite assertion - that the English language “came from nowhere”.

I might argue that it did come from somewhere, and there we are, right back in your “Star Wars is/isn’t shitty” dilemma.

In fact, your whole post is full of these arguable, binary oppositions.

E-English appears to me nothing more than an exercise in unnecessary circumlocution.

early settlers discovered this the hard way when their sewage would flow back on to the shore.

Funny ass shit!

Hey I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and thanks partially to inspiration from it, I butchered and ate my first roadkill possum on my birthday this weekend! I’m not gonna lie, it tasted shitty, but I’m still working on making the skin into something…I spent all day scraping gunk off of it…

Thanks Scout!

add my blog to your list of rewilding blogs…I promise it is a good read: http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/carrot

all i can say is, learn to shake the reapers hand, mirror it’s grin - it’s going to take the whole damn universe someday. and then, another beginning? this is how stories go.