[Air-L] Dumbest Generation?

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Did you really just mean to suggest that previous generations understood 
the larger social world and made wise decisions that reflected that 
understanding?  I would think philosophers would have always agreed and 
been right, were that the case.
-Alexis

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On Thu, 15 May 2008, Mark Chen wrote:

::Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:23:34 -0700
::From: Mark Chen <markchen at u.washington.edu>
::Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
::To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
::Subject: Re: [Air-L] Dumbest Generation?
::
::I haven't read the book, but a counter point could be Stephen Johnson's
::Everything Bad Is Good For You where he argues new media is making us
::smarter by training us to see patterns from fragmented information.
::
::The issue I had on Johnson's book was that, sure maybe we're getting
::smarter, but we sure aren't getting wiser.  We can grok systems in some
::settings but somehow aren't able to grok the bigger social world and make
::decisions that reflect our understanding.  Maybe this new book is actually
::talking about being foolish, not dumb?
::
::mark
::
::On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Steve Jones <sjones at uic.edu> wrote:
::
::> Thank goodness. I wouldn't want any future generation to usurp my
::> generation's claim to being dumbest.
::>
::> Hang on...since it's probably those of my generation who are writing and
::> scoring those IQ tests....
::>
::> Sj
::>
::>
::> On May 15, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Aram Sinnreich wrote:
::>
::>  yet somehow american IQ scores continue to climb...
::>>
::>> a
::>>
::>> Casey O'Donnell wrote:
::>>
::>>> Huh... I thought it was Nintendo and videogames that did that... ;)
::>>>
::>>> Sheff, David. 1993. Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American
::>>> Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children. New York,
::>>> NY: Random House Inc.
::>>>
::>>> Best.
::>>> Casey
::>>>
::>>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Katy E. Pearce <kpearce at umail.ucsb.edu>
::>>> wrote:
::>>>
::>>>  Mark Bauerlein's new book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age
::>>>> Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future and its critics...
::>>>> great debate on Metafilter, with links to MSM stories/review on the
::>>>> book:
::>>>> http://www.metafilter.com/71648/Now-Get-Off-of-My-Lawn
::>>>>
::>>>>
::>>>>
::>>>
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