On Tuesday we watched the video lecture or Mark Bauerlein and how he felt that our generation is the "dumbest generation". I feel that he shouldn't just come out and blame our generation because the fault isn't all our generations fault. Our generation today has grown up around advancing technology and the media. The fault should not be placed soley on us tho. The blame also needs to be given to our parents. In the past generations parents were more involved with their childs life. But now with our generation parents seem to be to busy to spend time with their child so children now use media and technology as their parental control.
Because our generation has grown up basically under the supervision of the media and technology we have become almost incapable of functioning with it. We have become so adapted to technology that if it was taken away from us we wouldn't be able to properly function.
If our parents had payed more attention to us and tried to teach us more ways to communication we may not be lacking as much of the social skills that other generations feel we need.
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12 years ago
I completely agree with you. It is not completely our generations fault but the fault of society and how it is shaping us. Our parent have a greater need to work out side of the house and not interact so much with us. Therefore, I believe today's society is to blame.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with you. I do not think Bauerlein had the right to say that we are the dumbest generation when his generation is responible for the technology he insists we use too much.
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