[Air-L] Dumbest Generation?

[Mark Chen]

Oy!  No, sorry for the implication.  I didn't mean to say that previous
generations were any wiser, just that the current generation isn't wise
either, only smarter.  :)

mark

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:11 AM, <subbies at redheadedstepchild.org> wrote:

> 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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>   redheadedstepchild.org
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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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