[daodedickinson]

Interests today are so niche and constantly assaulted by "innovation" and "disruption", I think it is very rare to share an interest with parents.

Books like Faded Mosaic and Together Alone have documented well that there are not cultures in the first world; can cultures only be re-established by force as when Hundred Schools of Thought were (admittedly in a limited fashion) by the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty? Some might think rational persuasion to a center is possible, but I think such rationality has a common core as a prerequisite, and that for this reason, the concern for culturelessness, and not (perhaps merely) raw academic performance, a Common Core is proposed.