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It seems like every headline from American newspapers is now about the rise, the fall or the death of a social phenomenon for which the author coined a new term
by nicbou 4y ago
It seems like every headline from American newspapers is now about the rise, the fall or the death of a social phenomenon for which the author coined a new term.
More often than not, it was never alive, or it's changing rather than dying, or the whole rise and fall occurs in a small circle of people.
I have come to treat those headlines as clickbait for pearl-clutching twaddle. Same as "We need to..." and "It's time we..." headlines.
Is this one any different?
- GavinMcG 4y agoYes, it is. It reports a specific change that is taking place this year as a marked depature from the approach to literacy teaching that has been dominant for the past twenty years. Criticism of that approach isn’t totally new (see, e.g., [0]) but there really is a rise-and-fall pattern here, and “vibes” isn’t far off as a descriptor. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981447
- bowsamic 4y ago