i was thinking about making a post about the importance of learning cursive handwriting (historical documents, neurological benefits) etc. but then i remembered how i learned cursive by my teachers guiding my hand. i realized that this is basically off limits in the U.S and this would be seen as very scandalous for a teacher to do but in most of the world its such a normal, innocent act for kids to learn how to write. a low touch culture literally kills a people so insidiously.
Cursive is not necessary because we have print, so there is no reason to have it except to make signatures harder to forge or to read cursive from old documents.
signatures are irrelevant these days and just ceremonial
it’s pretty much impossible to write down a proper signature on anything that needs a signature, when you apply for an ID you make the signature on a shitty tablet with a terrible pen, same with signing postal packages. it always ends up being a mess and nobody actually cares about how it looks or how accurate it is
important documents are almost always digital and you often just type your name in a text field or sign it automatically electronically with citizen authentication
at least that’s how it works here. i’m not sure why they’re even used these days. a strange relic of the past