i see one instance alone:
17.9 million has been granted to colorado for the race to the top initiative. one stated reason, that i heard, is that it's a reward for being top innovators in playing the data game, ie: we're playing their race to the top game well.
so how is it that we are also 6th in the nation for suicide rate? coincidence? perhaps. but i think not. i've been in the schools.. good schools... doing well on the tests.. they seem more in need of hospice, to be quite frank. we're rewarding a tenuous people, with more of what got them there.
our pursuit, our why:
freedom (are we not the land of the free?)
freeing people up to be themselves, by creating (mental and physical) spaces of permission, so that the brilliance (art) inside each person/community can be shared.
*art: the thing you can't not do. your gift to the world. because you are the only dna capable of sculpting/crafting/being that exact (thumbprint) on us, on it.
not only is my child's, your child's, our child's, freedom priceless..
the brilliance, (those combined thumbprints), that will come out of that freedom is what will change the world, for good.
priceless.. yes.
ridiculous.. no.
the other side of priceless is that this is happening with or without that funding. those moneys would just help fast forward a revelation of our (everyone's) research, so that we free people up in a more timely and humane manner.
