Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has worked as a director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw studies about culture and American life.
This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today’s under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings.
Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up?
For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. At the dawn of the digital age, many believed they saw a hopeful answer: The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era.
That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.
Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, Mark Bauerline presents an uncompromisingly realistic portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies.
年轻人真的应该好好看看,到底我们的时间还有我们未来的各种各样的可能性到底是怎样被自己挥霍掉的?长时间黏在屏幕旁边,不读书,教师和长辈的溺爱,这些因素使千禧一代变成了最愚蠢的一代。生活富足,资讯顺畅,却智力下降。 虽然这本书讲述的是美国的情况,但是对中国的年轻...
评分 评分 评分 评分一本有趣的小书,虽然数据都来自美国,但是很多事实和特征适用各国于互联网一代,很容易找到样板。实际上,由互联网带来的弱龄化,以及一大批躲在二次元时间不愿出来的少年,又何止在美国。今天中国互联网人群衍生出的语境变化,对传统文化和严肃文学又多少影响我无从预知,不...
对于中国人,特别是中国年轻人,基本没用。
评分知识爆炸是知识消亡的前奏。
评分这本书其实我看了有一阵子了,但我并没有看完。如果图书馆没有催还的话,我本是打算看完的。但结果,我只看了一半的样子,并毫不后悔的还了回去。在看这本书之前,其实我期望甚高的,因为这本书的作者说过:其实,每个人的生活中,99%都对别人没有任何意义。因为这一句话,我开始看这一本书,但看了一半之后的感觉却并不如我的期望。这更像是一篇及格但不优秀的议论文,有着清晰的论点、论据、论证,却没有闪光点。然后,也就是这样了。
评分you just cannot trust him too much
评分the whole thing is about why Facebook and Twitter are pieces of shit
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