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The less we learn the more stupid we'll be. The brain, like any muscle, atrophies if you don't use it. This is already happening with genz in college. https:/
by pier25 2y ago
The less we learn the more stupid we'll be. The brain, like any muscle, atrophies if you don't use it.
This is already happening with genz in college.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-eli...
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI'd wager you can find a copy of an article with that premise about every generation going back to a generation after the invention of writing.
- pier25 2y agoWhat about IQ declining after many generations of growth? Or what about the attention span crisis? Or the lack of technical skills in genz? I seriously doubt this is a generational thing as you seem to be arguing. Smartphones and social media didn't exist until 15-20 years ago and we're now seeing the consequences.
- Jensson 2y agoPeople are much weaker and fatter today than 50 years ago, sometimes the next generation actually is way worse than the previous.
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- vunderba 2y agoWhether or not there is any truth to pithy sounding sayings (that have been parroted since the dawn of time aside), the brain is NOT a muscle. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/anatomy-of-the-brain https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
- pier25 2y agoIt's obviously not a muscle. Wasn't the metaphor obvious?
- drdeca 2y agoI think the source of the confusion might have been the use of the word "any". If you had said "like a muscle", that would have been unambiguous, implying that it isn't one but is only being compared to one. Whereas, "like any muscle" is something you might say of some particular muscle in order to point out that it is like its fellow muscles. I do not mean to suggest that "like any muscle" is in any way incorrect. The interpretation of what you said as saying "while not a muscle, it has this in common with all muscles:[...]", as a stronger statement than "while not a muscle, it has this in common with a typical muscle:[...]", makes sense of course, and I think it or something very similar would be the most common interpretation.