It is a shame that the electronic age has changed young ones so much. What a difference from when I was a youngster!!

All I can say is amen. John.

Interesting article.

Very ineteresting stuff. People are just easliy influenced, especially by media, video games, politics, social networking. I could continue, but that's my quick opinion. Intelligence is a scarce thing these days. Open minded, free thinkers.

The shorter than normal media is all the rage with the millennials as well as Facebook, Twitter, snapchat and instagram. they spend a lot of time on these platforms and do not need to be incentivised to do so.

the quality and understandability of most of these is far below where they should be to ensure an intelligent populace.

A good portion of what passes as discussions are nothing more than a fairly seedy mixture of trash. Especially, as the article pointed to in the question above, in the area of politics. (just my two cents)

Mickeyb

Cutting edge stuff. In the old days it was newspapers that could influence people's thoughts. Today it's the net. Whoever can grab people's attention and attract advertisers will influence people's thoughts. Let's hope they are not malevolent. I'm with you on this. My girlfriend has a 10 year old son. He doesn't have a particular interest in school and his major interests are video games and football (European). Now, he's only 10, but my point is this: media influence is very strong with these kids. My parents were the only influence until I got to 7th grade. Yes, teachers were there, but that was basically the three R's.