![]() Also with Freud, we believe that to pay attention to its discontents is a useful intellectual strategy to this end. With Freud, we believe digitalization is a social process as inevitable as civilization and the question of how to live with it is more interesting than that of how to live without it. It is on this that the demand is based that the young, too, shall become virtuous. The strictness of those demands would not do so much harm if education were to say: ‘This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy, and to make others happy but you have to reckon on their not being like that.’ Instead of this the young are made to believe that everyone else fulfills those ethical demands – that is, that everyone else if virtuous. In this it becomes evident that a certain misuse is being made of ethical demands. ![]() In sending the young onto life with such a false psychological orientation, education is behaving as though one were to equip people starting a Polar expedition with summer clothing and maps of the Italian Lakes. ![]() ![]() Its other sin is that it does not prepare them for the aggressiveness of which they are destined to become the objects. ‘Thus consciousness does make cowards of us all….’ That the education of young people at the present day conceals from them the part which sexuality will play in their lives is not the only reproach which we are obliged to make against it. ![]()
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