Yeah, I mean both stories are important and you can absolutely teach both of these lessons.

Teaching to prepare for the future is not inherently bad though, it’s teaching self reliance, is incredibly important. And the truth is, you can prepare for the future on a day to day basis. If you’re planning a beach trip, bring sunscreen, an extra pair of socks, your sand toys, the more prepared they are, the more fun the kid will have.

Simultaneously, since humans have existed, parents have been telling children that “life is not fair”, and that’s also a very important lesson, and a hard one to accept. As they get older you start expanding on what you mean by that, pointing out the inequities in society, and how it might affect them.

The danger of teaching children only that the world isn’t fair, and they may never be able to achieve what some others will have handed to them, is that it can leave them feeling helpless. And helplessness can be just as deadly as a big bad wolf. They do need to be prepared to take care of themselves, personally I think that’s your primary job as a parent, to help them figure out how to do that.

It’s true, the world isn’t just, but regardless, you also won’t achieve much without putting in work.

Well again, that’s a different story, as that’s about things they had, not things they did.

Brick is also plentiful, it’s just more time consuming. You get clay out of the ground, it’s mud. It is resource intensive though, it does have to be shaped and fired, so that’s a whole process.

Still, I think the allegory still would have worked if the third pig had used logs instead of brick, the point would be the same. Durable materials are a better choice in the long term.

There are foreign powers and corporate powers deliberately trying to foul up western democracies. They use social media as well as traditional media to spread hate, fear, anger and generally divide communities. The more they can divide us, the more control they can seize.

And utilizing nationalism, racism, bigotry in general… that’s just a force multiplier. That’s a technique that lets you influence a small number of people, and then that group of people continues to influence their communities.

It turns out that it’s really easy to tip the scales toward chaos, hate and selfishness, it’s easy to make people angry or scared. It’s a lot easier to convince someone to blame someone else than to take responsibility for their own problems.

On that note, I have heard the term “many moons” to describe the passage of time, one could use suns in the same way.

Like, with glue?

I just played Subnautica for the first time a couple weeks ago! This was indeed pretty awesome. When the countdown got close, I still sailed down there to watch…

One of my favorite games ever has to be Outer Wilds, and truth be told, of all the games I’ve played recently, this one came closest to giving me those outer wild vibes.

Yeah, how does that work?

You send a summons through the mail to… anywhere?

That’s what you thought he meant?

This wasn’t a failure of communication on his part, it was a failure on yours.