re: #307 otoc

Sorry, I don’t see that. Literacy has always been held as a goal. The printing press is what made it available to the masses. With each new offering from technology, I’d argue we lose it. Movies replaced the popularity of books, twitter and social feeds replace those. There’s only so much time in a day.

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We lose what? Literacy? Sales of books are increasing with the prevalance of the internet, as is literacy.

@ both, I was half kidding with my first remark, which was why I wrote the twitter poke. There’s no denying that Sesame Street has brought good. But let’s face it, society on the whole is now geared to short sound bites of black and white, and not lengthy discussions of why the world is gray.

But was society ever geared towards lengthy discussions of why the world is gray? That’s the part I’m arguing.

Sesame Street started that ball rolling. I’d argue without Sesame Street, Twitter wouldn’t be as popular. #hashtagssuck

What’s the basis for this argument? It seems like a huge stretch to me.