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There should be a term for the fallacy on display here. The Spurious Generalization Fallacy perhaps? At no point did you address whether the shifting habits of

There should be a term for the fallacy on display here. The Spurious Generalization Fallacy perhaps? At no point did you address whether the shifting habits of younger generations will be bad for their literacy, instead making a general point that new trends in society are routinely panned by older members of such a society. As a counterpoint, before radio and the phonograph, musical ability was quite widespread. Now, it's much rarer. You haven't even attempted to address whether various developments in society and technology might do this to literacy the way earlier trends did to musical skills. I think that result is quite likely, by the way.

Swizec 2y ago
> You haven't even attempted to address whether various developments in society and technology might do this to literacy the way earlier trends did to musical skills. I think that result is quite likely, by the way. Fair, I was making a different point. Yes literacy might be reduced, my argument is that this isn’t necessarily a problem. Our abilities shift to take advantage of technology. A lot like how we got really bad at memorizing long epics because we can just write them down instead. That said, I don’t think writing/literacy will go away as much as we might fear. The new technologies are not a good enough replacement (yet?)