My nephew is going to graduate from high school in the spring as a likely valedictorian and is already in a UofM beginning pre med starter course but he shows a frightening lack of practical knowledge. He’s never been fishing, spent the day in the woods alone, been in a schoolyard fight, fired a gun. I don’t even know if he can ride a bicycle.
Locally there is an argument over what to do with an old 5 story hotel in town. The leading liberal idea is to put thousands of tons of dirt in it and do vertical gardening in it with water from tilapia ponds on the roof. They can’t grasp the fact that the building was built for human occupancy and putting thousands of tons of dirt and water in it would be disastrous.
A lot of people in the near future are going to die for unworkable utopian ideals.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”
- Robert Heinlein