Reading, thinking, avoiding fear
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A "greatest hits" moment. Me, my page on facebook, 2017. Five years later? Worse but there's still hope. :-)
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I wrote this in June 2016:
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Please, anyone, everyone, don¡¯t believe anything you¡¯ve only read once, especially in a forum like this, or on facebook. In all my life I¡¯ve never seen as big a flood of falsehood and nonsense as I¡¯ve seen in 2016 so far. The second worst was 2015. Next year should be worse.
BE CAREFUL what you get excited about or fearful of.
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The "forum like this" is Always Learning, a yahoogroups discussion I created in 2001, which is still active. It's one of the best discussions ever, and STILL no one should believe anything they read there just because they read it.
WHO wrote it, and why? Does it make any sense?
Thinking is fair. Thinking should be required, but who could require and enforce it? I wish only people who were good at thinking and had just recently DONE some would write in public, but wishes are just wishes.
If possible, require thinking of yourself.  Don't believe anything you've only read once. Don't write things that you can't or won't back up.
Not writing anything is vastly better than writing crap.
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and me, a comment there:
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P.S. That wasn't written about politics at all. It was about dental advice and strident parenting, but did I call it or what? 2017 has been worse already than any year before for the volume and speed of the sharing of falsehood and twisted confusion.
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The original is here:??
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The reminder to step back, and to think clearly, seemed worth bringing back.? ?It's a rough time, but there are still kids building memories, learning, needing a safe and secure unschooling home.
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Protect yourself from twisted fright as well as you can, so you can keep your kids happy and learning in peace.
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Sandra
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