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Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up
by noteworthy at 3:17 pm EDT, Oct 22, 2005 |
"It's a waste of time," she said, "because most of the time they're talking about nothing."
Don't knock nothing. Seinfeld was a show about nothing. Nothing can be quite something. The young have become adept at managing multiple sources of information at once, but the ability to multitask has curbed their "ability to focus on a single thing, the ability to be silent and still inside, basically the ability to be unplugged and content." "What we're losing is the contemplative dimension of life."
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RE: Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up
by Mike the Usurper at 8:16 pm EDT, Oct 22, 2005 |
noteworthy wrote: "It's a waste of time," she said, "because most of the time they're talking about nothing."
Don't knock nothing. Seinfeld was a show about nothing. Nothing can be quite something. The young have become adept at managing multiple sources of information at once, but the ability to multitask has curbed their "ability to focus on a single thing, the ability to be silent and still inside, basically the ability to be unplugged and content." "What we're losing is the contemplative dimension of life."
This is basically just this generation's version of the age gap. Television, cars, cable, MTV, now the internet. For my generation it was "did you see [name of TV show] last night?" For my daughter it's "DING: U watching [name of channel]? Tutn it on!" Get used to it because trying to change it will cause other problems. |
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