Lots of destruction out there today.

Kenney trying to destroy AISH and the Canada Pension Plan in Alberta. Conspiracy theorists trying to destroy truth and facts about Oregon’s fires. In Edmonton, vandals targeting 80 bus shelters for mass destruction.

I figure North American societies have not spent enough time teaching and encouraging creativity and the creative impulses from a young age, in homes and schools for starters. If people learn the joys of making things and developing aesthetic potential and sensibilities, then there will be less of this destructive mindset, motivation, and crazy enthusiasm to destroy.

For this reason, over time, good teachers, mentors, and sensitive parenting are needed and required to reduce destructive choices made by destructors, both online and physically. Without minds capable of conceiving of and fathoming creative choices, there will only be more senseless, mindless, stupid, ignorant destruction and deaths. More Trumps and wanna-be Hitlers than new Michelangelos, Beethovens, Shakespeares, and Frank Lloyd Wrights.

Widening the topic/a strong, thoughtful response from a close friend:

I think much comes as a result of too many kids growing up with virtual reality at their fingertips, and especially with the mindlessly destructive violent games that parents permit.  As well, there is much that is absolutely non-creative in their handhelds — use and then toss, rather than create things useful for others to benefit from or enjoy.  “Easy” bullying, for example, that often then needs to be ramped up to a greater — and ultimately physical — level (Vygotsky’s “zone”).
As for Kenney, he wants to control the CPP in the same way as he does the ATA Pension Plan.  Money = power = control.  AISH just another unnecessary expense.  Remember when Klein emptied Alberta Hospital and handed out one-way bus tickets to BC?
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