tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4763143288913714272..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Dumbest Generation?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31497347142931720452008-07-07T18:05:00.000-07:002008-07-07T18:05:00.000-07:00Try Asia for example. A person is in the middle o...Try Asia for example. A person is in the middle of a conversation and their cell phone rings. They panic to get to the device and answer immediately then, spend time talking while moving away so you don't hear. I've walked away from people who don't have any manners when it comes to cell phone use. My cell phone is turned off at 9 p.m. Some people are flabbergasted at that one. A. MorrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-16904057912488859682008-07-07T13:45:00.000-07:002008-07-07T13:45:00.000-07:00I have 2 daughters..16 and 18. Laptops, Ipod-phon...I have 2 daughters..16 and 18. Laptops, Ipod-phone, and, the oldest has now worked enough to buy a Crackberry. Friday or Saturday nights are get togethers and, they chat on-line around the world. They socialize, discuss and debate and, well, have fun. They write chapters of a story and the next person has to add to that chapter...some of the story's are very well written. There will always be young adults who try to find the easy way out...but...if both of my daughters and the 20 to 30 friends they have are any indication, then, I welcome the technology, the new technology and the new futuristic technology, I think it makes them more aware of the world, and, the world then becomes a little smaller. Oh...and your gonna love this MOS..the oldest applied to Ottawa U, and, wants to work with the NDP candidate in our area..:) I coach Jr Hockey...I have 2 teenage daughters...I have no issues with today's youth...they impress me, they know about education, and, they seem to have a better view of the world and how it works then I did at that age. Just my observations. billgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-59064160255399589992008-07-07T12:33:00.000-07:002008-07-07T12:33:00.000-07:00I don't suppose you've got any emperical evidence ...I don't suppose you've got any emperical evidence to support your views LW? <BR/><BR/>"The "old ways" are being revolutionized so quickly that people left behind are left to scratch their heads in wonder."<BR/><BR/>Wait a second, that sounds a lot like what we heard from the neo-cons in the White House in 2001/2.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately the studies tend to disagree that young people are reading more than ever. SpaceBook is a poor substitute for the information needed to make wise choices.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18816537713614145012008-07-07T12:17:00.000-07:002008-07-07T12:17:00.000-07:00An interesting analysis, but it's doom and gloom a...An interesting analysis, but it's doom and gloom are wrong.<BR/><BR/>As a Digital Citizen myself, I find that reading is more important now than ever.<BR/><BR/>People aren't getting dumber, people are being a different kind of people. The "old ways" are being revolutionized so quickly that people left behind are left to scratch their heads in wonder.<BR/><BR/>We're coming to a new age of social interaction. The epiphany that this was possible comes from facebook and text messaging. A mass globalization will occur that will unite the non-political masses of the world in a way never before seen.<BR/><BR/>Interesting times are ahead!Lore_Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710650180695926821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38540512236422555872008-07-07T11:59:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:59:00.000-07:00Remember Admiral Poindexter and the proposed "Offi...Remember Admiral Poindexter and the proposed "Office of Total Information Awareness?" Awesome. And the band played on.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-9519195876546743512008-07-07T11:28:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:28:00.000-07:00Funnily enough there was a story on the AP this mo...Funnily enough there was a story on the AP this morning about the erosion of “free speech” on service providers such as Yahoo! The example cited was a photograph of a Romanian child smoking a cigarette that was used as part of a photo-essay on poverty in the former East Bloc countries. The good folks at Yahoo! felt it was inappropriate for the obvious “politically correct” reasons. Idiots. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, the point was that people are quite freely giving up their constitutional rights to privacy and freedom of expression with nary a whimper of protest. It’s all just par for the course in our fantastic new digital millennium, don’t you know? <BR/><BR/>Last week there was the vastly underreported story about Google being pressured to surrender all of its user information to Viacom as part of their lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube. If that goes ahead Viacom will have access to all of the viewing habits of millions of people. And who exactly is going to control that information and what will they do with it? But nobody seems to care and on we merrily go…Red Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00422305796158017027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30995236091132535362008-07-07T10:36:00.000-07:002008-07-07T10:36:00.000-07:00I fear you're right, RT. If, or when, the global ...I fear you're right, RT. If, or when, the global marketplace comes to be dominated by China and India, what cultural and societal influences will be spawned?<BR/><BR/>Our Western democratic traditions have been nurtured in a relatively steady economic expansion. What if that grease runs out and our democratic values come to be tested by progressive economic retreat? Democratic generosity is plainly more acceptable in good times of plenty but, as we've seen from times of emergencies such as world wars, it quickly falls by the wayside when we're "up against it."<BR/><BR/>I was brought up to understand that we didn't have a single civil, legal or political right that hadn't been hard-earned, often paid for in blood. I also came to understand that we didn't have a single right that wouldn't be readily taken from us should we become indifferent to it.<BR/><BR/>The right to privacy underpins several other rights, including core political rights essential to a healthy democracy. When one falters it tends to weaken the matrix of all our other rights but, if it's gradual enough and offset by distractions, it can happen without protest. Grrrrrr.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3069975986009708472008-07-07T10:00:00.000-07:002008-07-07T10:00:00.000-07:00Excellent post. I have to confess that I've never ...Excellent post. <BR/><BR/>I have to confess that I've never owned a cellphone, let alone a Crackberry. <BR/><BR/>As someone with four adult children, I share the concerns you've expressed, as well as those in the article cited. The next generation or two are going to get their clocks cleaned in the global marketplace by the Chinese and Indians, I'm afraid. At the risk of sounding like another cranky old dude, the kids of today are quite probably the most incompetent people ever in terms of being prepared for the challenges ahead of them.Red Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00422305796158017027noreply@blogger.com