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Trying to decide how paranoid to be about media/business manipulation of children and only coming up with "extremely"
There are some people who are a little bit skeptical about, oh, common core and disney but I am convinced there is a wholesale war on intergenerational memory and reverence for the past and the capacity for awe in childhood
Why are books reverential to plant life, like Elsa Beskow, so hard to find? Why are all science books intensely reductionist and mechanomorphic? Why did dolls go out of fashion? Why was the historical girl brand which taught millions to bond with history seemingly sabotaged?
Why do the people/animals in animated shows get more aggressively ugly? Am I the only one to think fairies, wholly appropriate for helping children enter into knowledge of the land, were deliberately replaced by an anthropomorphic world view which trades awe for entertainment?
Children need to feel home in the world. Instead their books, toys, memories, media, and education teach them to feel the world is a mere joke, consuming pop songs and slogans as fast as possible with as little opportunity for wonder or communion.
