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I think the author is talking about the average person, not about you. The Internet makes it very, very easy to tune into something trashy. I'm not sure it's p
by byrneseyeview 18y ago
I think the author is talking about the average person, not about you. The Internet makes it very, very easy to tune into something trashy.
I'm not sure it's productive to claim that a culture of ignorance is less important than other problems. If you don't fix that, everything else gets worse. If people start to believe that it's important to do an actual job well, not to vote in a giant election or a TV show or a social news site, many problems will disappear.
- orib 18y agoAs I said, there are enough real problems with society that we don't need to make up hogwash about how the internet is us stupider. Real problems, like a broken education system where the intelligent children with a desire to learn are bored to tears, and just stop trying in school, all in the name of bringing up people who can't -- or don't want to -- learn well enough to keep up. Real problems like a culture of unquestioning consumption of both material and nonmaterial items. Real problems like people's apathy towards their environment -- the communities that they are part of, the health of the planet they're living on, et al. I could go on. If anything, tuning into interactive trash is a step or two above what generations have been doing since the 1960s -- tuning into TV, and turning off their minds. I see the current inanity of many parts of the internet as a product of this culture of ignorance that you're speaking of, and not the cause.