What Effect Is More Forms of Communication Having on Our Culture?

Then leave it at home.

Thank you for clarifying :rolleyes:

One can only be “programed” when one only has once source of information. People today have more information than they can possibly absorb. It doesn’t matter because you can only put it out there, you can’t force people to think about it.

Now, now,** msmith**, only noone has only one source of information.

Say! Maybe its the word “programmed” that you don’t like. Ok how about “brainwashed”? Yeah, thats what you kids have undergone…“brainwashing”. Maybe that is why IQ test scores in general have dropped ten points in the last forty years. You kids have been “brainwashed” because you have not taken the time, or else your culture hasn’t given you the time, to reflect by way of checking the information that you input against what you have already experienced in life so far.

But remember…

__________ ** The bird of time has but a short way to flutter,
_______________ And Lo! The bird is on the wing. **

Over two decades, the quantity of information bombarding us has increased dramatically. Just look at the proliferation of TV channels. Our ability to evaluate and discriminate has not kept pace. Here we are still with two eyes, two ears and 24 hours in the day. The great danger is that vital information will be lost in the clutter, that we will be so overwhelmed we fail to pick out the important from the merely interesting and so make poor decisions as citizens.
In a related vein, it is interesting to look back in history to times when people would travel for miles at great inconvenience to spend hours standing and listening to lengthy, densely worded speeches and debates. It’s astonishing today to read something like the Lincoln-Douglass debates.