I had a few very interesting conversations over breakfast this morning, first, w

I had a few very interesting conversations over breakfast this morning, first, with a woman who has founded two semi-private schools and specializes in adding mindfulness to curricula. And second with her husband who is a bit of an activist for the catholic church and previously convinced me of it’s present value. These are well read people. Committed people. Moral people. Probably south of island 120. But certainly capable.

And what I was struck by, and what I am continually struck by, is the prevalence of moral reasoning, in the absence of empirical understanding. In other words, the application of the intuitionistic and interpersonal to the empirical and equilibrial.

I also walked away with even greater conviction that the reason that we do not teach virtues, history, accounting, basic economics, grammar, logic, rhetoric, is because each of them creates objective valuation of one another; objective valuation of one’s parents, and their social status; objective ability to criticize self, parents, teachers, priests, and politicians; and in particular, falsifies our intuitions, and feminine intuitions.

In other words, our children are made more ignorant in every generation and more pliable by academy, state, media, finance and industry.

It is one thing to read books, and another to talk to educators, priests, public intellectuals, school principals, regular academics, reporters, and politicians. And when you do, it can scare the living hell out of you. Because all they really know is what is within their relationship circle.

I’m always terrified that the boomer generation brought about a dark age. And we have already begun to enter it.