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How passing down essential skills becomes cultural resistance

I'm teaching my kids to start fires because I'm terrified they'll grow up completely helpless but they just want to watch YouTube and I feel like I'm fighting the tide.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Every generation must choose whether to preserve human capabilities or surrender them to convenience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fire and the first human technology?”

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