Friday, December 14, 2018
Let's learn about cyber war in kindergarten
Cyber War, the new Cold War explained to children
To teach Internet security to children can be very tricky.
The following comic books are typical of a strict enforcement of century-old rules in the USA: “Do not speak to strangers.” “Do not accept anything from strangers.” This approach here, particularly in the first volume, is sexist (for boys only), and color-blind, which means racist, still again in the first volume only. The second volume corrects this sexism with two females, one positive, the other negative, just like the men, and the afore-mentioned racism with a black woman on the good side with a Latino name. But the second volume centers on a trinity of good agents who are a slightly modified version of the Christian Trinity, hence something that cannot speak the same way to everyone and is intended to speak to Christian children.
But the worst shortcoming is the vision of cyberwar in cyberspace as nothing but a new Cold War that opposes the good Americans to all the bad ones outside this American pale. To thus train and knead children’s minds into believing that everyone outside one’s small certified friendly circle is bad and evil is the worst possible service rendered to the world, history, civilization. The result is in the making: The Internet is becoming more and more shattered by such imperialism from the narrow-minded circle of those in America who believe they are the only ones who are right, just, good, angelic and of course stable and genial.
There is a lot more to do in that direction to bring the younger – and why not the older – generations to a full commitment to and understanding of human civilization based on human values: open-mindedness, empathy, love, diversity and equanimity.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
THE CYNJA VOLUME 1 – CHASE CUNNINGHAM – HEATHER C. DAHL – SHIROW DI ROSSO, illustrator – © 2013
CODE OF THE CYNJA VOLUME 2 – CHASE CUNNINGHAM – HEATHER C. DAHL – SHIROW DI ROSSO, illustrator – © 2015
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:26 PM 
