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re: Has technology made humanity a bunch of blithering idiots?
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:44 am to Tantal
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:44 am to Tantal
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Dealing with kids often, I also believe it's having a profound effect on their attention spans.
This is true. I imagine we're going to see a major shift (at least in some populations) to stop over-use.
It's going to end up a privilege in 10-15 years. Book it.
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Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:45 am to kciDAtaE
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ridiculous. Most people don’t even know how to churn their own butter.
Don't even get me started on the ones who can't properly plow a field anymore.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:48 am to Richard Grayson
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No. We’ve always been idiots. It’s just easier to see all the idiots now.
Also, "idiot" means something different.
You go back 100 years and find your average person and we'd think they were uneducated and an idiot. I mean a solid % of the middle-third couldn't even read.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:50 am to SlowFlowPro
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Have become experts on a myriad of different subject matter because of the internet,
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I love how you rant about how people use technology and machines to make certain areas of their life less resource-dependent and then also get upset at a major societal benefit from that leftover resource-abundance from technology
And I love how you omit parts of what I said to paint a picture that was not my intention, but you thought you could score some points just the same.
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but just lack any real world experiences in those things.
The intent was not to rail on technology for what it contributed to society in education, but that it’s caused us to also miss out on real world practical experiences associated with that knowledge.
This post was edited on 1/11/23 at 7:52 am
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:54 am to Mike da Tigah
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And I love how you omit parts of what I said to paint a picture that was not my intention, but you thought you could score some points just the same.
Because it wasn't really worthwhile content you posted.
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The intent was not to rail on technology for what it contributed to society in education, but that it’s caused us to also miss out on real world practical experiences associated with that knowledge.
But that's literally impossible in most cases, and you're creating an unfair standard compared to the past. People in the past lacked the same real-world experience and the comprehension of the related subjects.
Where is your thread yelling at the clouds of the past?
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:56 am to Mike da Tigah
I don't know how to dig a hole with a shovel anymore with all these damn excavator machine users. Dumb lazy fricks.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 7:59 am to Fat and Happy
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I just appreciate not having to wait for the Victoria secrets magazine and Fredrick’s of Hollywood magazine or finding the right time to watch a vhs porn tape to run one out.
Well just make sure you show them your Louisiana ID first.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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SlowFlowPro
I’m not yelling at the clouds or angry. These are simply observations from pre-internet America to today, and none that affect everyone the same. But while we’re at it, I would like to add uber sensitivity to the list, being incapable of discussing a subject without one taking everything personally, or a personal attack upon themselves, or something they hold dear.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:01 am to Mike da Tigah
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I’m not yelling at the clouds
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But while we’re at it, I would like to add uber sensitivity to the list,
This is one of those "when I point a finger at you, there are 3 more pointing back at me" moments
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:02 am to Mike da Tigah
I feel like it’s exposed how dumb we are as a society
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:03 am to SlowFlowPro
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This is one of those "when I point a finger at you, there are 3 more pointing back at me" moments
Your contributions to subject matter being discussed are insignificant. Off with you.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:22 am to SlowFlowPro
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You go back 100 years and find your average person and we'd think they were uneducated and an idiot. I mean a solid % of the middle-third couldn't even read.
But that third could fashion a horseshoe and deconstruct an animal after killing it, and that’s what really matters.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:24 am to LanierSpots
Yes it has and also has made people less friendly and many are just plain helpless without their tech toys. Sad situation.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 8:27 am to Mike da Tigah
I can tell by many commenting on TD that it has. They keep being fed bullcrap info from the internet by people who don't know shiite from shinola and consumed by people who don't know shiite from shinola but it sounds good to them.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:21 am to Mike da Tigah
This reads like the unabomber manifesto. Becoming slaves to technology.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:27 am to SlowFlowPro
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You go back 100 years and find your average person and we'd think they were uneducated and an idiot. I mean a solid % of the middle-third couldn't even read.
But they weren't system robots. They could solve problems, and do shite people today can't, like build their homes, set up farms, repair their shite, process food.
They were more capable and utilitarian. Without a step by step process, most people today are blithering idiots.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:29 am to Mike da Tigah
It hasn't helped. There have always been lots of idiots, they just have a platform now. It's a combination.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:46 am to RogerTheShrubber
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But they weren't system robots. They could solve problems, and do shite people today can't, like build their homes, set up farms, repair their shite, process food.
They were more capable and utilitarian. Without a step by step process, most people today are blithering idiots.
I often think what anarchy would ensue following something that caused our electric grid to crash like a solar flare, or EMP taking it out. It would not be a very attractive scene, I can tell you. Even with people who know how to hunt and have meat stored up in their freezers. Once the generators went down, and they got back from their hunts, almost none of them would know how to preserve what they killed. They’d be back in the woods the next day to do it all over again, and that wouldn’t last very long before the populations were depleted.
Now imagine that happening and the people in Louisiana for example tried to figure out how to do this in a climate that is more like a Petri dish for bacteria and disease to flourish than anything conducive to sustaining life. The technology has all but disappeared and without being prepped up with salt, fat, etc, and a cool and dry place to store it, or google to turn to, lots of people would die as a result. The very same that go to the grocery store every day or week to keep enough food to live on.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:53 am to Mike da Tigah
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It would not be a very attractive scene,
Most of the country would die when their money ran out. That would be almost immediately since banks will not have the ability to process funds.
People today are not capable of handling their own affairs. They pay people to do it, and have lost all of their instincts and intuition.
Posted on 1/11/23 at 9:57 am to Bayou
It's definitely made society as a whole much lazier, which affects our desire to put forth the effort to educate ourselves in general. Critical thinking has been on a sharp decline, we let technology do the thinking for us.
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