With many schools opening online, school-kids wearing masks, social distancing or isolating at home, glued to online devices during the Covid pandemic, racial justice protests, ugly presidential race, floods and fires in everyone’s face on social media and fake news, condensed to two-minutes or less of self-serving biased spins, I hate to think what this generation of masked scared and scarred students in K-12 isolated classes at home will become.
In my 2004 book Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder, chapter two, Living Cultural Contradictions, pages 100-101, I despair at children
“Left to their own devices, children can easily live in isolation with their computers and televisions. Worrying and feeling guilty….”
This was back in 2004, 16 years ago! I went on to say:
“One can’t help but notice the number of children interacting with one another has decreased and changed. Many are ignorant of basic social skills. They just don’t know how to interact with each other. On the other hand, given a world of crack heads, half way houses, gang cross-fires and sideline rage and youth sport poisoning, what parent would happily say to a child ‘All right dear, out you go to play and be back by dinner.’? Children can’t even play cops and robbers with paper guns in school without taking a grim trip through the juvenile justice system because of school zero-tolerance policies.”
That was then. What is happening today with masks, social distancing and home isolation that is forcing kids to live in self-isolation online, makes life back then look like an ideal walk in the park.
Climate change has forced Mother Nature to inflict SARS, Ebola, Bird Flu and Covid-19 upon us — and the world we are leaving our children.
Future pandemics will only get worse. What will they have to wear and do – or not — during the next pandemic?
Mother Nature help our masked Covid-generation school children and the robotic New World Disorder they are inheriting.
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