War… used to, but now that we have less of it in the news, it’s not on daily basis anymore. They just batch the statistics for larger chunks of time.
These months it’s rather the expected shifts in our education system which is planned to move online to some extent. Nobody knows what exactly it means, everybody expects everybody “to defect”. E. g., low quality textbooks and especially the online framework (including lack of Internet connection in some places); overall lack of motivation; even lower standards of (self) grading… it gets to me because my kid will be in his third year, I will have to somehow teach him despite everything and work, too. The problem is not that this is a temporary solution to the corona-crisis, the problem is that it’s going to stay afterwards.
I now think about it all like a Gift from the Gods. A charmed chalice, a ring of Power, you name it: something not “fatal” itself, but inexorably and ungovernably causing ripples in the world. Something everybody wants to use himself, and knows everybody does. Something that cannot be mislaid, in our legendary times.
War… used to, but now that we have less of it in the news, it’s not on daily basis anymore. They just batch the statistics for larger chunks of time.
These months it’s rather the expected shifts in our education system which is planned to move online to some extent. Nobody knows what exactly it means, everybody expects everybody “to defect”. E. g., low quality textbooks and especially the online framework (including lack of Internet connection in some places); overall lack of motivation; even lower standards of (self) grading… it gets to me because my kid will be in his third year, I will have to somehow teach him despite everything and work, too. The problem is not that this is a temporary solution to the corona-crisis, the problem is that it’s going to stay afterwards.
I now think about it all like a Gift from the Gods. A charmed chalice, a ring of Power, you name it: something not “fatal” itself, but inexorably and ungovernably causing ripples in the world. Something everybody wants to use himself, and knows everybody does. Something that cannot be mislaid, in our legendary times.