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at the preschool, i have to resist this idea to say to any question they ask, "let’s look it up on google" i have to resist https://t.co/6XMUnRuWzZ
josh schrei from the course was telling this anecdote of having a google home in his house with his kids. they’d ask it lots of questions, and he realised google was kind of occupying the psycho-somatic role of all-knowing deity https://t.co/ORwtvhp9Xs
google fucks that up. it fucked up my generation. i didn’t realise the world was this unknown place. i lived, not in the world, but in the world of known information searchable with search engines. it’s going to be easy to live not in the world but the world of what chatgpt knows https://t.co/mIuZwR66ej
they can’t get used to answering every curiosity by typing in https://t.co/IfqY3Gi5WW they need to get used to that process of sustaining attention on a question long enough, going past the little phases of tiny failures, until they go out, and discover https://t.co/vLtTNVVNGP
instead, i had them go out and see if we could find any bugs and see what they were doing. we didn’t learn what monarch butterflies eat specifically, but we did learn 1. there are yellow butterflies around us! i’d never paid attention
2. little white bugs on some of the plants. aphids? i don’t know 3. more about the kinds of things we actually find in the our backyard, and how to go find them this is useful, somatic, local information. google doesn’t know this
what does it look like to do that as an adult? re-enchant the world. prioritise somatic, local, embedded knowledge. it feels like secret information, and there’s a world of bodywork and yoga, and tantra i could never have found, the other way https://t.co/XqsvdTSsmJ