im more and more convinced that schools are a way to extract our creativity out of us and leave us in a more vulnerable state for authoritarian prescriptiveness
@scarly I put a bit more blame on the toy industry
<begin get off my lawn rant>
back in my day we got a cardboard box and made whatever we wanted out of it! and detergent bottles! and sheets and twine! Now all the toys are "this is a <thing>, it does <thing> and nothing else, if you want <thing> instead you have to buy a <thing>"
</end get off my lawn rant>
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@troubleMoney hello sea creature friend, this perspective is quite Valid and makes me think of the legos that i was lamenting earlier in the day
@scarly oh yeah, lego and meccano were great, especially when you just picked up a bucketload of the stuff at a boot sale, no instructions, just make whatever