n0> And how would she judge what is better for her sons? And most of all, how would she negate all the secular influences in her life?
absolutely. But what I think Dov is saying – if someone is not exposed to modernity, she might not need that. I would love to see statistics whether we still have community that are really walled off the world. If someone has a friend who has a friend who is getting their news from facebook, then the person is probably exposed.
And if they are, as you say, they need tools to both process and counter-act. And the exposure is mostly at the popular level, like facebook-curated news, rather than access to academic research. Maybe it is similar to previous exposure to Hellenism – there were philosophers and science, and there were sports and popular culture.