The High Point of the Evening, Part II
We keep hearing nowadays that kids are smarter today than kids were in the past. One of the main reasons given for this dispiriting phenomenon is television. I just don't get that. Have anyone of the experts coming up with this idea watched television lately? It keeps getting dumber and dumber. Another reason you sometimes hear is that children are eating better. Eating better? Who are we kidding? I'm not sure that kids are smarter. It just seems that way because they pick up the latest technology faster than adults, but being able to quickly master something that grownups couldn't care less about learning has always been a function of childhood. So they can play video games, and send text messages, and download vapid music to their i-pods, big deal. But can they sit and have an intelligent conversation about, say, something important, like could it be possible that Anna Nicole Smith's death from a massive ingestion of every sedative known to man was really accidental?
posted by John M Crowther @ 6:41 AM
4 Comments:
Kids are more "worldly"... (thank you hollywood) but not necessarily more "wise". Shame that.
and Anna Nicole is another story.
John, fell off my chair laughing at the cartoon which was wonderful today and the commentary, one of your best.
I have spend hours pondering this matter of ANS. Was it or wasn't it? Is the Prince the father or the 90 yr. old deceased by frozen sperm. So many troubling things about this matter makes it hard to concentrate on the small insipid items, such as the 15 British sailors , Iraq, global warming, who will be the Dem. candidate, the Rep. candidate, will we even have a good choice, not to mention the condition of our children today. Not wiser or smarter but simply forced to grow up too fast with the majority of them having to be their own parent.
Anna Nicole who? Naw, just kidding. I try so hard to focus on genuine news around the world and yet the media still manages to force its boorish sensationalism down my throat. As long as there's cable, (and FOX) I suppose there's no avoiding it! Great work John!
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