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Dumbest Generation

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I recently read Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). Although the title might be just a bit overstated (there's no way to tell whether today's generation really is dumber than all previous generations), he did hit on quite a few disturbing trends. Chief among them, in my view, is the way in which digital technology magnifies and makes ever-present one of the most destructive forces in all of society: teenage peer pressure. Here's Bauerlein on that point, from his new introduction: Youths undergo an intense awareness of one another, a high-pressure social feeling. The stakes are high ? is anything worse than exclusion? ? and so they have to tune in, to manage that omnipresence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).