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What's even more worrying is that I've heared plenty of people defend it as, "Younger generations are just intelligent in different ways compared to older gener
by c048 2mo ago
What's even more worrying is that I've heared plenty of people defend it as, "Younger generations are just intelligent in different ways compared to older generations."
I'm halfway through my 30's and this downturn started with my generation, halfway through the 80's. I hope I'm missing something, because I still need to see a benefit for lower attention spans, lower comprehensive reading skills and lower critical thinking capabilities.
- wannabe44 2mo agoTo add, less articulate and somewhat overtly anti-intellectual. Why even learn something when you can ask the slot machine?
- Cthulhu_ 2mo agoThe anti-intellectualism is so weird to me, it feels like people get overly defensive and angry (a secondary emotional response to shame) when confronted with their own lack of knowledge / intelligence or when asked or challenged to use their own brain.
- drekipus 2mo agoThe benefits are increased productivity, consumer satisfaction, and shareholder profits
- Cthulhu_ 2mo agoHalfway through 30's means you were born in the 90's though, but other than that you're right, the advent of the internet, google, and rapid fire short form content has messed with our attention spans; the following generation grew up on the internet and saw the advent of high intensity videos and then short-form mobile-only infinite-stream short-form dashed-words videos.
- lelanthran 2mo agoYou should point out then that "border collies are just intelligent in different ways, too"