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Two Interesting Videos : Divergent Thinking and Empathy

These videos are sort of complimentary to each other; yet, there is a possibility that a change in our capitalistic, industrialized educational paradigm could result in a rethinking of human nature and the other institutions within our society today. There is a chance that we can be educated to accentuate and even amplify our empathic sociability and rediscover our kinship as a global race.


Why are we putting ourselves through factory-lines? Why do we stifle our aesthetic senses and capacities for creativity? 

Sir Ken Robinson thinks that we should change the paradigm of education and I agree. What do you think?



'Can we connect our empathy to a single race writ large in a single biosphere?' We do have a common bond - empathy, and perhaps we ought not repress it, and give in to our 'secondary drives' such as narcissism, materialism, violence and aggression.

Do you think these videos are accomplishing these goals, in that they attempt to educate and stimulate us in different cognitive ways?  


I think so. 

Comments

  1. Tim5 March 2011 at 21:26

    i linked to the second vid (the empathic civilisation) after seeing it on http://solarcrash.com/

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