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This thread might have been more profitable if Oerdin had written "literate" instead of "literary".
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Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Much better than the Soviet trend that there is one right answer, and that whatever your teaches / shift boss / whatever says is that right answer - and that you're supposed to do things, not think about what to do.Originally posted by LordShiva
Another disturbing trend these days is the rise of relativism, and the idea that there is no one right answer. As a result, kids get away with writing utter drivel about how they "feel" and what they "believe."Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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Still much worse than the trend where people are told that there is one right answer, but that they have to find it for themselves.Originally posted by Solver
Much better than the Soviet trend that there is one right answer, and that whatever your teaches / shift boss / whatever says is that right answer - and that you're supposed to do things, not think about what to do.Comment
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Relativism
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Relativism
If you don't like reality, change it! me
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"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
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The new generation's attention spans are being decimated. If something doesn't entertain us immediately, we can go to another site and read something else. The internet is good for literacy, but not the traditional kind. Our patience is being reduced to quickly digestible thoughts. Not to say that no profound idea or story can be articulated succinctly, but a great many cannot.
Thomas Pynchon releases a great new book with anarchists and physicists, but kids nowadays don't give a ****. Get off my lawn.
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I don't think baseline human intelligence chance that much.
The "literacy" of the modern era is a different form, but I would not say it is worth that much less.
The short attention spans and fast digest thoughts probably opens a much wider but shallower base of knowledge. People that get bored quick will explore other stuff quick.
Everyone is given only so much time, and as long as the rate of reading remin constant, there can't be that much of a difference. Besides, there was a lot of trash in the past to be read too, they just don't survive the test of time.
We have a biased sample today on the "quality" of past works.Comment
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That's what you get for stealing our IT and 7-11 jobs.If you ask me, mine is probably the saddest and dumbest generation I've come across.
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Originally posted by Bill3000
That's what you get for stealing our IT and 7-11 jobs.
I think it doesn't reflect too well on you that our saddest and dumbest can outcompete you, does it?Comment
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= wikipedia pWnZ j00!!1!!Originally posted by MORON
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The short attention spans and fast digest thoughts probably opens a much wider but shallower base of knowledge. People that get bored quick will explore other stuff quick.:-pComment
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