People complain so often about racism, and sexism, discrimination against people simply because of what they look like or how they were born. Maybe discrimination against disabled people, or discrimination against older people.
How often does society as a whole address discrimination against people who are younger than thirty, because they're too young, they're "MTV-weaned, attention-deficit-prone," and who wants that kind of person amirite? Because of the way this new generation has been brought up they're not capable of the kind of thinking older generations are. They don't even try. You know, my friend's daughter had the option to be a pre-med student and what did she do? Major in modern dance. My god. That's the problem with the world these days - no motivation.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaking as one who is unabashedly part of this new generation, I'm forced to say that there are people who are unmotivated in every society, every social status, every race and every generation. The need for constant entertainment is, indeed, a problem that we have to deal with, but that started years ago, not specifically when the internet was created.
No, the world is not doomed because of these silly young people who can't think, or speak properly, or say yes ma'am when talking to their elders. Even if every single person under the age of thirty acted like that (which, needless to say, isn't the case) the world would not be at all in danger. History flows its own way, and a large number of stupid people probably isn't going to slow down how the world is going. It certainly didn't with all the generations of stupid people before us.
There are a number of thinkers in this generation, brilliant arithmeticians, people who are absolutely incredible in science and language and art and anything else one can conceive of. What has changed with the inception of this method of constant communication called the internet is not the intelligence of the youth, but the number of stupid people who are able to make a grab for the spotlight.
