The bigger picture, in your words
With my KIP project to make sense in the social age and surface the best civic participators - or members of “the Fifth Estate”, - I’ve been collecting the contributions on Twitter.
For a couple years I made graphic images of quotes I spied. I put some of them together into a larger narrative of our time, and this moment. Take a look!
Below is a short version of the narrative in the video. See the video for quote credits or read the transcript with credits here.
“The Bigger Picture” In Snippets From Emergent News Contributors Curated By KIP
We're not 'learning' pandemic life well or fast enough
We’re not learning. The tragedy of this pandemic has been laced with ignorance and neglect of science and public health education from the start. Our pandemic world needs education, and a new ability to learn science and adaptation.
“Cruise ship docks and brings virus to SF? What year is this? Oh right, it’s today. ”
2022. 2 years into the pandemic.
Schools are reopening and still haven’t addressed ventilation. The hospitals are already filled with children.
Fog brained Long Covid sufferers may count into the millions in Florida alone?
“The cost of not learning pandemic life - well, fast, or at all - is immense.
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We were already challenged in the cognition department before this point.
In “Making Early Sense Of The Pandemic”, I refer to the February 2020 cruise ships - just like the one this week pictured above - that disgorged 2,500 virally infected people into San Francisco while people on the street assured me they didn’t need my leaflet of public health warnings about a damaging virus because they ‘don’t live here’.
The tragedy of this pandemic has been laced with ignorance and neglect of science and public health education from the start.
“A pandemic world needs education, and a new ability to learn science and adaptation.”
Yes, you can learn adaptation.
Washington Post has my opinion 8 months later
Washington Post says America needs civics and history to save democracy.
This is how the Post’s Editorial Board puts it today. “While the country spends about $50 federal dollars per student per year on science and math education, only five cents per year per student is allocated for civic education,” notes Lawrence Tribe whose tweet I first saw. “Democracy demands a population better educated in history and civics,” says the professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
I said as much 8 months ago when announcing my pro-democracy knowledge project: America needs a re-education.
Helping people requires what one of my readers called “a new civil service journalism to inform citizens at a time when the Fourth Estate is dying and under attack, and news media has devolved into propaganda machines.”
My mission is to help with what comes next: when we dig out from the damage, there will be a massive need to educate people about what just happened.
Last June I wrote about my work on a curated knowledge & awareness project for concerned citizens.