Joana’s Reviews > The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains > Status Update
Joana
is 48% done
Seriously, when was this Golden Age of Reading and Intellect? Can someone give me the dates?
Because every decade or so, going back to at least Socrates, we have some variation of the "Oh no, humanity has lost its gravitas. *Insert sad, single tear emoji* We are now mainly composed of simpering idiots who cannot think or learn properly, not like the people of my youth!" speech...
— Aug 20, 2020 06:30AM
Because every decade or so, going back to at least Socrates, we have some variation of the "Oh no, humanity has lost its gravitas. *Insert sad, single tear emoji* We are now mainly composed of simpering idiots who cannot think or learn properly, not like the people of my youth!" speech...
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Joana
is 45% done
I might have to take this back once I finish the book, but the general vibe I'm getting is:
- white old fart is very disturbed because content creation and distribution is no longer controlled and maintained by other white old farts
- the internet has stolen the youths' brains! (yet confusingly also gives examples of people bemoaning exactly the same thing when the printing press was created, and radio, and tv, etc)
— Aug 20, 2020 01:27AM
- white old fart is very disturbed because content creation and distribution is no longer controlled and maintained by other white old farts
- the internet has stolen the youths' brains! (yet confusingly also gives examples of people bemoaning exactly the same thing when the printing press was created, and radio, and tv, etc)
