The first place I heard about this was on some cranky old furry artist on FA's journal. It was him basically going 'HAW HAW THIS GENERATION IS SO STUPID' firmly cementing himself in the club of bitter old men who wear brushed denim pants up around their sternums.
I replied with this: I think you missed the second half that talked about the continuing lack of schools being able to teach critical thinking skills. This isn't a problem with just young people. I've met many people throughout my life of all age groups who never even got the basic primer on that particular skillset. They never question their assumptions or look for fallacies in their own thought patterns and mental constructs. This lack of critical thinking leads to not questioning the sources of information and stereotyping entire groups of people based on limited experience with them. You're as likely to meet an old dude who watches nothing but golf and a news network who is convinced of utter bullshit as you are a 13 year old who assumes we've always had facebook.
Yeah, that's not a passive-aggressive as fuck reply about him using something he found on the internet that fit his assumptions that the internet makes kids dumb because they don't fact check or critically read what they find on the internet, no.
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The first place I heard about this was on some cranky old furry artist on FA's journal. It was him basically going 'HAW HAW THIS GENERATION IS SO STUPID' firmly cementing himself in the club of bitter old men who wear brushed denim pants up around their sternums.
I replied with this:
I think you missed the second half that talked about the continuing lack of schools being able to teach critical thinking skills. This isn't a problem with just young people. I've met many people throughout my life of all age groups who never even got the basic primer on that particular skillset. They never question their assumptions or look for fallacies in their own thought patterns and mental constructs. This lack of critical thinking leads to not questioning the sources of information and stereotyping entire groups of people based on limited experience with them. You're as likely to meet an old dude who watches nothing but golf and a news network who is convinced of utter bullshit as you are a 13 year old who assumes we've always had facebook.
Yeah, that's not a passive-aggressive as fuck reply about him using something he found on the internet that fit his assumptions that the internet makes kids dumb because they don't fact check or critically read what they find on the internet, no.