I don't want to know

Our society is killing our children, opening a Pandora’s box for its future
Written by Danny Weil Education Apr 27, 2010

"...We are literally driving our children in this country insane with commercialization, rampant individuality, loss of public space, popular culture, corporate media, poor diets, homelessness and pharmaceutical drugs. Looking into the face and minds of many of our children in this country should mirror back at us the monstrous policies we operate under and what it has done to us, as adults. It should show us with clarity the sickness that pervades the society and the institutional madness of the gravediggers we call ‘leaders’..."


It's not just our children. I had a short conversation with a total stranger today and we both ended up agreeing that in order to function sometimes the thought for the day is "I don't want to know."

Yeah.

In order to not walk around with balled up fists and a sneer on my face I have to ignore the shenanigans of the Lloyd Blankfein s in the world, and some days it's just too painful to remember how frightened my daughter was to go to school after some of the school shootings made national news.