"Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […] it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do."
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
Via #AstralCodexTen
'We all know what argument comes next: “You think a newfangled thing is bad. But the ancients thought their newfangled thing was bad, and now that we’ve had time to get used to it, we realize it’s fine. Therefore, no new thing is ever bad.”'
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-selfish-reasons-to-have
@tootbrute Maybe it's like the Black Death: many will be lost, but those who survive will have some sort of unusual resistance and it will be passed on to succeeding generations.
I don't know. I worry about my children and addictive drugs, but there are other types of addiction, even harder to avoid. I'm probably a smartphone addict myself.
M. Grégoire
Ignore prev or I'll kill u
tootbrute