Our culture seems to have decided that kids are better off when they’re not alone with other kids
-Laura June, The Life and Death of the American Arcade
Does this strike anyone else as incredibly sad?
Source: theverge.com
There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American.
Jill Lepore, Battleground America
Source: newyorker.com
Most people who were brought up in the past half century have been taught to live this way, by their own rules, building the world they want. That belief—Klinenberg calls it “the cult of the individual”—may be the closest thing American culture has to a common ideal, and it’s the premise on which a lot of single people base their lives.
Nathan Heller, The Disconnect: Why are so many Americans living alone?
Source: newyorker.com
There may be no white America and no black America, no blue-state America and no red-state America, but one thing is clear: There is a young America and there is an old America, and they don’t form a community of interest. One takes from the other.
Stephen Marche, The War Against Youth
Source: esquire.com
Large-scale education was not developed to motivate kids or to create scholars. It
was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system. Scale was
more important than quality, just as it was for most industrialists.
Seth Godin, from his new manifesto on education “Stop Stealing Dreams”
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Amazing photoseries entitled The American Soldier by the Denver Post. (hat tip to @davechensky)
