Dumbest Generation
From the buzz about Mark Bauerlein's look at the soi-disant 'intellectual life' of our young, it sounds to be a gift for media coverage. "The Dumbest Generation" carries an eye-snagging subtitle: "How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future". Prof of English at Emory U, MB casts a spotlight on how the infantilization of our culture and the misplaced faith in the knowledge economy and its digital diversions are corroding young minds at a critical juncture.
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My heart always goes pitter-patter when I see a comment from El Zacho. He don't talk much, that vaquero, keeps his powder dry, but when he does, it makes sense.
"Spartan warrior-poet", indeed; love it. Was a buff fellah at Z's and my alma mater, went under nik of Water-borne Warrior; thought that rather cool, particularly as this chappie could well have been a cockleshell hero.
Bayonet drill messing with Fri pm beer call. Hmm, echoes of ZW's earlier reference to keeping shtum in the Nitelite when the beefy frat boys get rowdy.
I may switch the topic of my thesis from the diabolic intellect of Iago to "phallic beer motifs in the blog comments of the Hon. ZW". Crowded field, I know, but bags of excuse for field research.
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