My Thoughts on Leepers EC Reading, and The Politics of Children's Shows.

Okay this topic is kind of a beast. It isn't incredibly complicated, but has many sides reaching for attention on the subject of regulating children's networks. On one hand you have a voice that says let's give the kids as wide of lens to see through, while another is a moderating force, afraid to show kids too much.
           The folks who pursue giving kids the widest lens, seek to let kids as they mature develop their own thoughts of what is right and wrong, and let them decide how things should be. Making their experience of growing up more dialectic. They are able to ask more questions and seek answers. The danger in this is a wildly diverse culture, one that has many ideas and views and may be difficult to contain into one people group. To many ideas is good, but difficult to control.
            The folks who want to limit Children exposure, fear the idea that kids are to immature to understand complex matters, and need a guiding hand to understanding moral issues. The danger in this is it's incredibly arrogant to believe you have enough answers to guide a growing person in the right direction, and these people might point these kids in dangerous paths.
             Personally I find the first group to be the more advantageous route over the second. I think this way about many dialectic approaches. One of my favorite analogies is the Roman views on liberal arts. The Romans believed Liberal education, that is an education that teaches a subject along with various different general knowledge in combination to produce a well learned person was the superior education. I go to this school to learn Animation, but I also take math, science, literature, and bible courses along with my major. The Romans also knew that an educated population is a powerful one. So when it came to slaves, they only let them attend trade schools. The purpose of this was to have more efficient and practical slaves capable of holding up the empire, but without the knowledge provided by liberal arts, was less capable of staging an effective resistance. Not saying that all people who go to trade schools are slaves, but the thing about our school is it provides us a path that shows us many things, from many angles. Giving us the most capability to ask questions and seek out answers.
          Let's take a tangent and look at apes. Our closest living relative scientifically speaking is the ape. We've taught these creatures many things and one of them is sign language. We've taught these creatures to communicate with us, and the most fascinating thing I find to all interactions we've had with signing apes, is that they have never asked a question. Never has an animal taught to communicate with man ever asked a question.
         Giving us a route that lets us ask the most questions is vital to the growth of man as a species and us as a culture. So I appreciate a force that advocates wide lenses, and tons of exposures. I think it's what will push us forward.