Evolving Tools. Eternal Truths.

Brains Are Plastic is an exploration of what it means to be human in the 21st century. It is a juxtaposition of the new and the old ignoring the polarizing, pessimistic, overdetermined answers the world tries to give us and instead searching for the positive truths we can hold for ourselves and our kids. A complete starting point is here.

Most of the viewpoints on technology today are on edges of the spectrum, either trad Luddite or the most e/acc of techno-optimists.

One of the goals here is to approach the future with Both/And reasoning. In the words of GK Chesterton:

“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”

We’ll explore changes in the world from classical education to AI. We’ll look at some of the obvious causes (yes parents, it’s the phones!) and some of the overlooked cultural and generational changes (maybe it’s not the phones!) that have an entire generation in this predicament. And yes, we might cover some news too.

It’s good to have you here. Cerebra plastica!