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Sammysong
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Effect of Slowness on Political Structure
#21791870 - 06/11/15 06:08 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've discovered something call the slow movement, which has been going on, slowly, for a while now. Basically, it's the philosophy that everything is moving too fast and needs to slow down. I think politically, participation in the slow movement can have benefits.
The progress we've made in the past century has been good in that we now understand more secrets of the universe than ever before, but no matter how fast we go, we still will have infinitely more to understand. So why break our backs going as fast as we are?
Are we indeed breaking our backs? I would say so. I believe both government and corporate entities are trying to move at speeds they can't keep up with, trying to do more and more things at once in an attempt to do more in less time (multi-tasking), and seeing their work quality suffer as a result. Often, their attempts at speed have made them inefficient rather than more efficient, and they have to re-do work that should have been done correctly in the first place.
And we keep pushing kids to learn more and more at earlier ages. When kids can't keep up, they have few options in the world. That could be a major factor in the income gap. If we slow things down so more kids can understand what's going on, the gap can close a little, and some of the kids that were lagging don't have to resort to menial jobs or criminal behavior. When you go faster than a kid can keep up with, of course he's going to give up. Of course he'll lose hope. And of course he'll be open to recreational drug use as an escape.
So, why don't we all just slow down a bit and give people time to absorb all that's being thrown at them? The quality of work would improve, and fewer people would have to resort to ugly methods of dealing with life.
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Re: Effect of Slowness on Political Structure [Re: Sammysong]
#21792388 - 06/11/15 10:02 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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You are very close to describing conservatism, which of course is nothing new.
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Re: Effect of Slowness on Political Structure [Re: Shins]
#21792407 - 06/11/15 10:09 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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i agree with several of your points. However, the time to educate children is immediately, while they can learn at a rapid pace. Language is a good example. If you wait until secondary school, learning languages is slow and difficult. if you immerse a toddler in a new language, they pick it up very quickly. My youngest sister spoke 3 when she was about 5, while i can speak one, and maybe a little spanglish.
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Re: Effect of Slowness on Political Structure [Re: Sammysong]
#21794799 - 06/11/15 08:21 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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What exactly would you slow down? The school system? We need to slow down the little hoodlums who disrupt everything and hinder the other students. Kids should be allowed to go at their own pace, i'll agree with that but don't slow everyone down to help the few who need to go slow. What else would you slow down?
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Re: Effect of Slowness on Political Structure [Re: Sammysong]
#21795143 - 06/11/15 09:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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When it comes to education, I think the problem is not the pace, but how effective the teachers are when doing their job. When I was in high school and middle, if you got caught behind you were screwed unless you didn't go to tutoring. My teachers never really gave me or any other students one on one time, and a lot of my friends really needed it
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