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Literally taking away the bread and circuses (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People have been saying this about the attention spans of the youths at LEAST since Television dropped, and probably since books dropped

Yep. Plato wrote about being worried that the rise of literacy rates among the youth would rot their brains, because they'd never have to memorize stuff if they could just write it down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's actually some merit to that. People have a harder time remembering things that they know are written down and retrievable (because there's less need)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. There's also some merit to similar worries about television and the internet. It's just never the civilization-ending infocalypse that it's cracked up to be (or at least not so far).