manish on root cause
manish jain on mental health crisis via fb share:
“I feel we need to look more closely into the mental health epidemic facing India. Most education professionals want to reduce the pressure and anxiety facing young people without fundamentally altering the “pressure cooker”. As per their fragmented and piecemeal academic training, they want to ‘mop up’ the floor without turning off the tap of overflowing water. While this might be good for business, it does not solve the core problem. It only feeds further into a culture of empty gimmicks and eventually more pills being prescribed. This is however a crisis that can lead to total collapse of the nation if not seriously dealt with. We need to stop blaming individuals and look at the systemic causes driving it. It seems to be there are four essential *root cause conversations to have if we want to turn off the tap:
*missing pieces
1) how do we challenge the myth of the ‘normal child’ and associated labelling and standardisation that the system tries to fit everyone into;
myth of normal
2) how does factory schooling and its inherent culture of competition/scarcity/comparison feed into this crisis of resilience and self-worth?
supposed to’s of school/work.. black science of people/whales law
3) how do we re-design our education system and our lives for more connection with the rest of nature, with healthy collaborative intergenerational community and with genuine spaces for creativity?
we let go of any form of m\a\p
need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs
imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)
4) how do we shift our core purpose of life and raison d’être beyond homo economicus (being defined as making more and more money and pursuing consumerism)?”
oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
ie: a nother way
– Manish Jain, Shikshantar Andolan
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