I read two very interesting articles today "The Dumbest Generation? Don't be Dumb" and
"Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh", and disagree with both of them. It's NOT the dumbest generation.
Evolution is smart. It gave us our thumbs, made us attracted the most to the opposite sex during the best reproductive years of our lives, it gave us the ability to fear so that we live longer etc. And generally, what we have to do in our lives is mainly driven by our desire to survive.
This generation is not dumber than the previous one; it just lives in different circumstances and plays by different rules. You do not need to have a broad view on the world to get into college because the width of knowledge you'll be SAT-ed on is limited and known in advance. You do not need a college degree to get a job. In this country, you can work minimum-wage jobs and still be able to afford shelter and food.
In the past, parents taught their children how to hunt, fish and fight. Now they teach them how to touch-type, google and drive. Both approaches give enough information for the kids to survive.
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Awesome argument, I'm in total agreement. I mean seriously, who needs to know how to hunt in this day and age!
ReplyDeleteI know, right. People who think that kids nowadays are dumber live in the past, not in the present, and certainly, not in the future. This age is the age of experts and specialists not philosophers.
ReplyDeleteGreat point of view and arguments re: "evolution."
ReplyDeleteEvolution is dictated by the circumstances of the particular time/era and WILL change from one generation to the next. We (humans) always like to reminisce and think of "what if's..." but the reality is that you can't compare our upbringing with that of our grandparents. No one is better (or dumber) than the other, it's just life. Evolution.