A brilliant summary of the reasons, why we got so intellectually lazy and apathetic. 👍 On the other hand it's concentrated cultural pessimism - and I'd like to object to the hopeless tone.
The lack of critical reading / thinking's for sure a threat to democracy - but is this really new? Students getting rewarded for rote memorisation instead of analysis, populism, disinformation...
I have no solution to offer, but still have hope. GenZ is smarter than we "old geezers" sometimes claim.
Jacob Urlich 🌍
in reply to JA Westenberg • •Xela
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •A brilliant summary of the reasons, why we got so intellectually lazy and apathetic. 👍 On the other hand it's concentrated cultural pessimism - and I'd like to object to the hopeless tone.
The lack of critical reading / thinking's for sure a threat to democracy - but is this really new?
Students getting rewarded for rote memorisation instead of analysis, populism, disinformation...
I have no solution to offer, but still have hope. GenZ is smarter than we "old geezers" sometimes claim.
Jacob Urlich 🌍
in reply to Xela • •G. Gibson
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •