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I have a theory (shades of 'I have a dream' - no disrespect intended).
Western civilisation has lived through a great time of change and plenty. Plenty of new things to find and wonder at. Plenty of new prosperity for prospectors to go look for. Lots of change. And that prosperity brought the opportunity to buy, change and discard.
We now have a pollution problem, and most of that is because we continue to buy, change and discard. Shirts, pens, paper, microwave ovens, TVs, mobile phones, computers, cars are all use once throw away items. The deluge of things discarded fills our land but we still do the buy, change and discard.
The past prosperity is a juggernaut that's hard to stop even when it's bound for the warm global wall. It's because of the habit that it's bound to crash. But few will think about it till it happens.
They will think about turning to other things to buy, change discard. The 'book' is such an item. The 'teacher/tutor/instructor' is another. It's funny that the two should be so closely connected, given that one definition of education is 'the ability to learn from a book'.
The progression along that line is even scientific. It follows the pattern that everything else has. We chuck our shirts, pens, paper, microwave ovens, TVs, mobile phones, computers, cars.
Even the educated are touting that we should get rid of the 'book'. So why not the teacher/tutor/instructor too?
Yeah! Okay! Now let's group hug on it! Second Life style!
Doh!
You're right!
Catchya later
from Middle-earth