Minds Destroyed By The Internet

American Conservative ^

[Fester Chugabrew]

I looked up “curmudgeon” in the dictionary . . . .

LOL. Luv ya, hg.

[TigerClaws]

Ha! IDIOCRACY, right? Classic film and surprisingly accurate.

[ClearCase_guy]

Perhaps not strictly on target, but I'm working with a woman who is "instructing" me on how to use a new software tool. The tool has buttons you can click, tabs you can click, boxes you can check, spaces you can add text, and blue words which are links that you can click. The screens are very busy with many, many choices. I think it's a bad design, but that doesn't matter.

Her typical instruction: "Do ..."

There is then a pause, and then I ask "Do what? I don't know what you want me to do."

And she says (vaguely waving her hand): "Do ... that."

Not helpful.

[dmcnash]

I guess analyzing an abstract concept like Quality is out. You don’t want to go down that rabbit hole.

[dsrtsage]

But they know all there is to know about the “science” of climate change and tell me to learn science, even though they couldn’t solve an algebraic statement much less integrate a function and think fluid mechanics is a fancy name for a plumber

[slowhandluke]

There is an old term that could be reused for this - twitterpated

[Lysandru]

<< Remember also these are STEM students - best and the brightest one would hope.

Re self esteem:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/confident-idiots-american-students-growing-more-confident-performing-worse/ >>

TigerClaws, this is another example of the semi-famous Dunning-Kruger Effect.

[TigersEye]

That’s it! A couple of years ago I thought Idiocracy would become a reality in about 50 years or so. I now think we’re nearly 75% there and it’s coming faster and faster.

Not funny ... but funny.

[Boomer]

I sometimes read local posts by young people on Facebook and can’t believe the amount of of poor spelling. Not just shorthand text type spelling but also sentence structure. Much of it makes very little sense to me but others in their age group seem to understand it. Crazy!

[Rinnwald]

... they are unable to decipher compound sentences, understand relationship between subordinate and main clauses.

Well, the libs have always had trouble understanding this sentence:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

[Boomer]

Show me on this doll where TigerClaws touched you.

/s

[fruser1]

This is a function of admitting thousands of “students” who shouldn’t be there in the first place.

For probably 90%, college is nothing more than day care with sex and alcohol.

[grey_whiskers]

Top KEK.

[Boomer]

Yeah; it’s social media. Not the Internet.

[grey_whiskers]

I had 2 people in the last year offer me a job for 150K just because I can actually speak to the customers.

$150k? There may be hope for me yet. Thank you!

[grey_whiskers]

As I saw on the Instapundit blog,

"No standards, only slogans."

[grey_whiskers]

+1

[Kickass Conservative]

WTH U TAKN BOUT HOMEY?

[wally_bert]

I could learn to speak for 150k and carry on conversations.

All of the years in IT have made me a bit anti social however.