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Oddly enough, I spent most of my working life as a community and youth worker and the single, biggest problem, I felt that young people were displaying, in an unarticulated and destructive way, was their complete lack of sense of being located in history. To be part of any community, to have 'roots', surely involves a sense of place, a sense of being a part of something older and still ongoing?
I bothers me that in our post industrial world, where education is for work and not life, we are losing what the great Woody Guthrie wrote, 'This land is your land, this land is my land, this land was made for you and me'.
Archaeology can be so real and so alive, it can inspire a wonderful sense of life, of time stream, and belonging in the great history of the world. It is a tragedy that our children are not getting that kind of education.
I agree that there is hope, people are not as dumb as modern politics would have us be. As long as we still have brains, not linked to global-corp, in some Orwellian nightmare, the persuit and habit of enquiry will live on.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road