Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Mark Bauerlein - The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

 The word "Dumbest" is unfortunate.  "Young Americans" are dumb only to the extent that they do not have or learn the traditional knowledge base that I know and have grown up with.  We live in different worlds and there is no way the worlds will be united.

Sticking with "dumbest" though for a moment, I consider MAGAS the dumbest Americans extant.  No doubt.

This is a reread.  Since he has a sequel out now, I thought I would cruise this first one again, an easy read.

The short story is digital vs. print.  I am a traditional print person and always will be.  Today's Milliennials are all digital, which is unstoppable.  I understand that, but digital is not my world.  What digital youth miss in my traditional print world, reading books, simply is what it is.  What this means in the world at large and the survival of the species I have no idea.

I am on Facebook but mainly just to show my creative writing, not to keep up with a social media world.  I am not into a social media world.  I do not keep up with an in-group online.  I do not need to be in touch with friends online.  I do not have the need to have a presence online to keep up with FB friends.

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