Tech Savvy kids are idiots.
I came across two things today that irritated me before 9am. I had the first irritable encounter when driving to work. I was listening to a local morning radio show and the topic for the morning was how integrated kids were with tech gadgetry such as mp3 players, cell phones, etc. Normally they have people call in to give their experiences and opinions on these topics. One of the callers was a teacher and she was discussing how she’s constantly having to confiscate these toys from kids and such. She went on to mention that when she teaches (history) the kids are completely dumbfounded that gadgets like cell phones didn’t exist in the past. It just screams naivety to me. As a kid myself I was generally aware of technology and history and that certain things were relatively “new”, especially when I was in school. The modern cell phone is roughly 15 years old, but didn’t really become mainstream until around 1998 or 1999. That’s not even 10 fucking years ago, and these kids were alive then, so how in the hell can they not grasp this?
This irritation leads into a second one which is derived from an xkcd comic strip. My actual complaint is not about people calling the Moon landing a hoax (that’s entirely other bitch session), but rather the inane types of responses you do actually get to this which eventually at some point someone will say “It was all computer generated, they can do anything on the computer.” The agitation point may not be obvious but I’ll explain Main stream society is getting dumber by the minute en masse, to the point that anything anyone sees on tv or in the movies anymore that doesn’t seem possible or real is immediately dubbed CGI or “It’s fake, they did it with a computer.” This flabbergasts me because movie special effects have been around since movies themselves, which pre-date computers. Being the knowledge whore that I am I’ve also had much education with many movies and their special effects techniques and on many occasions have experienced people say these things about movies and such that I know for a fact had nothing to do with CGI. Perfect example, the Honda Cog commercial. No CGI was used for this, yet a ton of people believe it was. And some say the same about the moon landing. The types of people that spout this crap really annoy me. Am I being too harsh? Most likely. That is my nature, of course. However for the love of whatever god you believe, do some research. Educate yourself before making claims you can’t prove to be true. And get some personal responsibility and get the hell off my lawn.
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