Sunday, July 14, 2013

Steyn: The End of History

So I was reading Mark Steyn's excellent blog post at The Corner "The End of History", and found myself nodding my head, nodding my head as I am wont to do whilst reading Steynposts on The Corner.

I have to agree that we are living in a human era of unprecedented access to information. Information has never, ever been more accessible to the average person and never at the current speeds or in the current formats.

At our fingertips, the whole world! One click to find vegetarian restaurants in downtown Madrid, order seamless cotton socks-whatever!

Yet (or perhaps despite this) this is the most forgetful human generation, the most self-centred generation, and the one with perhaps the shortest attention span in human history as well.

People are ignorant of history and even contemporary events. There is little thought of the past-so ancient! Less thought of the future-all that matters is now and today.

We see signs of this closing of the human mind all around us.

Here's an article that asks who screwed up ruined the humanities (I'd say lefties, but what do I know)?

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How many people do you think got this?