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Terrible article, if you ask me. The author strings some seemingly arbitrary quotes together - but it's unclear where the article is going or if the author is e
by jd 18y ago
Terrible article, if you ask me. The author strings some seemingly arbitrary quotes together - but it's unclear where the article is going or if the author is even trying to make a point.
The opening paragraph is great though, and the the description of the millennials ("shamelessly narcissistic, apathetic and lacking in social skills") is spot on. But how can the author say in one sentence we millennials are apathetic, and the in the next that we "care strongly about justice and the problems faced by [our] society"? Doesn't that just jump out of the text when proofreading it? Or is there a meaningful difference between apathetic caring and active not caring?
My knee-jerk (and naturally completely unfounded) opinion is that the author likes the book because it makes a bunch of statements the author wishes to be true (for obvious reasons). The author seems to be absolutely uncritical about the contents of the book. How can he not cover the quality of the research/argumentation and still recommend it without hesitation? And if the author doesn't have the background to review the book on a more fundamental level - should he really be the one to label it an educational must-read?