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MattholomewCup  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stupid is Winning: We are in the final years of our internet

    There were people that freaked out when they realized that "today's kids have never lived in a time without Internet." They were wrong, too. It's a tool, not a religion, and when you see complaints nailed to the door consider them suggestions, not heresy.

I just want to say how much I agree with this. Every time there's an advance in technology, the elders get up in arms and say "My goodness! These kids today, they'll never know what it was like to live without their newfangled gizmos. Now us, we did it the traditional way, the REAL way..." How quickly we forget.

Our parents tell us that we're not like them, that they didn't grow up with all this internet, all this information coming at them; it was different, simpler. Perhaps, but our grandparents would have been saying the same of TV. Our great-grandparents of cars. Don't doubt for a second there were people saying "yeah, printed text is great and all, but it will never beat good old-fashioned handwriting." (And that person would have forgotten his ancestor, some few centuries ago, complaining that "all this written language, it's ruining the oral tradition, why I bet our kids won't ever tell each other another story out loud again...")

But no, this time, for real, kids won't "get" how things used to be done, and this is a generation of stupid kids who won't figure stuff out for themselves. This time, it's definitely it.





kleinbl00  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have fallen upon evil times, the world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their elders. Each man wants to make himself conspicuous and write a book.

Narim Sin, 5000 BC

I've heard maybe five versions of this and I've never been able to narrow it down. Naram-Sin, for example, ruled about 2200BC, not 5000. I really want the quote to be authentic. the mood certainly is.