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[johnny9fingers]

More on the decline of Western Civilisation:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/19/tv-gives-kids-attention-span

Perhaps TV should be limited for the under 18's: only allowable on prescription and under supervision.
Or perhaps it should be banned completely (for the under 18's, that is) just like Alcohol and Tobacco.

Now I don't actually believe that such is necessary, but I do think we should be aware of the course we are plotting, and the amount of 'drift' in the equation.

 

Thanks to 

shoarthing for the link.

 

Comments

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Again I can't but agree with you about the information gathering and the scanning and discarding of much of what they regard as useless. It's what they regard as useful and useless that I'm worried about. You are so right about 'as we did in school', and to a certain extent that is part of my problem: as young folk, perhaps we didn't take advantage of those facilities allowed us. Now in my case I've had the time and inclination to do something about that subsequently. Not everyone gets the sort of second chances I've managed. I've been fortunate and somewhat privileged, and that doesn't appear to be everyone else's lot. I'm all for other folk having the time to develop in their own way and in their own fashion, but for some reason or other, not everyone has these advantages. Our society doesn't appear to be geared to allow the majority of folk this sort of luxury.
Practical solutions for ensuring that young folks get educated are obviously going to require more than a knee-jerk and blimpish apoplexy. But sometimes the apoplexy has a rhetorical point, or is even a vehicle for humour of a kind.

I find I'm turning more and more
Into Auberon Waugh.