i was preparing a training session about pivot tables and data analysis generally. feeling a touch of the anxiety butterflies pre performance. and then i got to thinking about the merits of education. how each generation has a duty to pass on knowledge to the next. but does the generation coming having a duty to learn?

i feel like we are wary of talking of duties these days. we have grown up with the ideology of bourgeois individualism, the celebration of wealth and beauty, and tolerance of massive global inequality. we privatize success, and we leave the rest to struggle.

so maybe the generations coming need to learn not from the words and actions of the generations before them; but from the reality of the world they will inherit from them.