Comment Re:Anti-tech and dumbing down (Score 1) 212
I don't agree with you that America is dumed down at all. What are you comparing it to? The Renaissance? Victorian Brittan?
My take is that as each day more "stuff" (knowledge, news, stats, etc) is released into humanity and that the sheer amount of that "stuff" seems so overwelming that we can't help but think that since there's all this that one doesn't know, how can we be as smart as the Ancients? That's a bit too nostalgic for me. Most people in the renaissance were average Joes that didn't know much more than tiling their farmland or being a seamstress or what have you. Has this changed? I don't think it has.
My take is that as each day more "stuff" (knowledge, news, stats, etc) is released into humanity and that the sheer amount of that "stuff" seems so overwelming that we can't help but think that since there's all this that one doesn't know, how can we be as smart as the Ancients? That's a bit too nostalgic for me. Most people in the renaissance were average Joes that didn't know much more than tiling their farmland or being a seamstress or what have you. Has this changed? I don't think it has.
