We should turn to the big differences between the way children and adults play to establish where and how we ‘rewild’ ourselves.
Studying in the age of COVID-19
This pandemic is a life-changing cultural shift, and one of the questions we ought to take from it is the purpose of education: what are people hoping to get out of their school experience?
What is a good education?
1) Contact time isn’t what defines your degree as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 2) Neither is the subject you study. 3) Neither is the institution in which you study. 4) Student loans are not sufficient for either the institution or the individual. 5) Education should only be for those who ‘deserve’ it (replace deserve with whichever word you like, they’re all there in the comments). 6) This is a crisis that is not only affecting the young and the middle-classes. 7) European degrees, or having the army pay for your degree, are not solutions. 8) We cannot institute the policy of ‘paying’ people for attainment in their degree by giving people with 1st class degrees a discount.
Pascal’s Wager and panic attacks.
Pascal's use of decision mathematics was new to me, and truly fascinating: it made me think of predestination as a mathematical probability rather than (an impossible) certainty, which is radically liberating when applied to everyday life.
Late Romantic 