I read that, and then your earlier linked posts of things you have written about the same author.
I think you are on to something about the internal problem especially. When the education system turned against the culture, which began in the 1950s, quickened in the 1970s, and really began to flourish in the 1990s, we began to realize a danger that only became fully apparent in the 2010s. Each twenty-year turn allowed those ideas to ferment and spread to a new generation more widely than in the prior one, until they were the common ideas of the elite of the culture both in Hollywood and Washington.
There seems to be some reaction against them now among the youth, but not in favor of picking back up the passwords (as you describe them) whose existence they don't even know. They do seem at least to want to be left alone.
It's a shame that young people don't read blogs, I guess, but they probably can't. The effect of smart phones has been a creeping illiteracy; a man I know in the business said that attention spans in the youth are now about seven seconds, after which they'll move on. Extended argument in text is a foreign country.
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The Passwords and the Barbarians
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I read that, and then your earlier linked posts of things you have written about the same author.
I think you are on to something about the internal problem especially. When the education system turned against the culture, which began in the 1950s, quickened in the 1970s, and really began to flourish in the 1990s, we began to realize a danger that only became fully apparent in the 2010s. Each twenty-year turn allowed those ideas to ferment and spread to a new generation more widely than in the prior one, until they were the common ideas of the elite of the culture both in Hollywood and Washington.
There seems to be some reaction against them now among the youth, but not in favor of picking back up the passwords (as you describe them) whose existence they don't even know. They do seem at least to want to be left alone.
It's a shame that young people don't read blogs, I guess, but they probably can't. The effect of smart phones has been a creeping illiteracy; a man I know in the business said that attention spans in the youth are now about seven seconds, after which they'll move on. Extended argument in text is a foreign country.
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