Eating the Seeds

Work is depressing these days, watching and even being expected to participate in the dismantling of the California public education system. In traditional agrarian societies, everyone knew that in times of famine you should not succumb to the temptation to eat next year's seed corn. By doing that, you delay starvation for only one more year, and then your death will be inevitable. If we jettison public education to save money, we only delay for one more generation the collapse of our civilization.