Before the pandemic in 2020, PPE meant something else; it stood for politics, philosophy, and economics.
It was the course at Oxford or Cambridge that the prime ministers picked, the old money, people who knew they wanted to go into politics, and they knew what was important.
Those generations or legacies or families understood that if you taught children about politics and philosophy and economics, we would have a head start on everybody else in the power struggle to get to the top of the tree to maintain privilege.
As I reflect on this type of stuff, I wonder why we don't teach it to every child as much as we can.
We had a young work experience lad in with us this week, a really good guy and in the Tuesday meeting, we were talking about societal events of the last ten days.
What we find about the Tuesday meeting with our team is that it's a great opportunity to dispel myths and to reassure people that everything is going to be OK and the stuff that is sensationalised from their news feeds is not necessarily exactly how the world is.
This was extraordinary during the pandemic and the times after the pandemic, keeping us all together as a team and making us feel a little bit safer so that we would not wake up in the middle of the night in terror.
So, in that meeting, when we were discussing the events of the last ten days, I asked people where they got their news.
I always have a question at the end of the Tuesday meeting. Someone gets to put their hand up and ask a question, and we don't finish until that happens. The young lad puts his hand up and says, "Where should I get my news from?"
What an extraordinary question, ay!
So, we were talking then about where we should get our news from, how we get objective news, and where it comes from.
15-year-old boys, like the lad who was there, are stuck in an echo chamber media. They get fed extremist content; the more they click on it, the more they get fed.
It comes through Instagram, Facebook (they don't use much of that), TikTok, and then, God help them, onto platforms like X and Telegram.
So when we talked in the meeting about where news can come from, it's astonishing how many people don't know where to find it and certainly don't know how to dive into objective news.
If we don't teach our young people how to explore politics, about the philosophy of who they are and who they want to be, and give them any sort of information or intelligence about how to deal with money, how can we possibly survive as a society moving forward?
Blog Post Number - 3895
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