The Numbing of a Generation
Connect with your senses I asked them. They struggled. It could be more about spring trimester and the weather, and sun, and impending potential of summer break, but for some reason, it felt like it was me. Three exercises, each designed to connect with their senses, emotional memories, purpose, feelings. Shelley wrote that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” and I wonder if this holds true in an age of Facebook, YouTube and XBox 360 Live. Is the seduction of the screen becoming a tonic that allows us to disconnect from the world around us? Today, it appeared so. The baffled faces, the confused expressions and the frustration with being asked to explore loss, comfort and place. It shouldn’t be so hard.
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