I was sitting on a bench at school today talking to a friend, who I will leave anonymous here, about how she was slowly demoting one of her friends on her top 8, to get a message across when all the sudden (dunh dunh duuuuuuuh) this thought raced across my mind:
One thing I've always noticed my teachers and professors say is that the students continue to get lazier and lazier. I was thinking about it today and instead of thinking that they all were just bitter old people who thought their generation was superior, I thought that maybe we are in fact "lazier" as they put it. I think they misread what is really playing out though. When looking back on the pattern by which human existence has gone from "primitive man" to "technological man" I see, at least for my part, that we have slowly outsourced our faculties to some less tangible means. One of the very first examples of this was when man went from using visual movements to using verbal (invisible) language as a means of communication from one man to the other. Another primordial example is warfare. We have gone from using swords just a few feet, to using intercontinental missiles thousands of miles apart, to settle our disputes. In trigonometry instead of using long tables for sine, cosine and tangent we use sin, cos and tan buttons on our calculators to aid us in calculating the angles of a triangle. Instead of asking someone how they are doing, just check their status on facebook. And to see where you stand amongst your friends, you needn’t look any further than their “top 8” on their myspace profile! I'm not here trying to condescend with the examples I use, just catering to you my reader, I leave those judgments to you to decide on. So it is not that we are lazier, we are just using means to express ourselves that are intangible to the older, condescending generations, and this disdain towards our supposed "lack of academic rigor" is just a representation of their inability to asses the youth's answers to their academic inquisition!
p.s. Sarah, I'm sure this is rife with grammatical errors, but I really could care less hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Burrrrrnnnnn! I'm gonna need some aloe vera for that one. Cute Mark, very cute.
Interesting theory by the way. I concur, but I know I do so hypocritically.
Oh and I initially did not want to dignify your derision with a response, but alas! I feel compelled to uphold ny niceness standards. Hehe
And just for the record, I was kidding Mark. I continue to find it difficult to convey sarcasm on this "less tangible" means of communication.
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