From: Iznogoud > This is off topic, Rick, but I will bite. > > I think you are not giving young people enough credit. There are > many smart kids around. I don't think he said they were dumb. I will say though that there are a lot of ignorant kids around imo. They don't know north,south,east,west, how to read a map and a lot of other things. They are fairly naive about how hard they are going to have to work to support themselves -- overcome their blind spots. I have this friend that's older. He tells me how he and his wife save the old maids when they make popcorn, and after they've saved enough of them, they pop them. He told me that a few years ago and I've been thinking about it since. I just throw my old maids out. Anyway, this friend is very friendly and hard-working. Like Joe Mauer, I think everything happens for a reason and I wonder if I should start saving my old maids. Maybe I should give them to the birds. Anyway, the point is I have a feeling a lot of kids would be astonished to hear something like this. >They are born in a world that offers them technological advances, > and as a result, they have the opportunity (and most take it) to be > smarter than I was when I was a kid. It is easy to know more. > What is not easy is to learn things in depth, which still requires > personal investment and effort in studies. > The world is not getting worse because of tehc. I read literature > about dystopian societies, and most recently I started painting > cyberpunk landscapes, but I would absolutely hate to live in one! In some ways I think it's worse because of tech. Crooks have more resources to be crooked. People will go to great lengths to figure out clever ways to steal things rather than building their lives on integrity. This isn't just true of Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and Iranians. It's true of some Americans. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - "Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, <https://biblehub.com/greek/5281.htm> character; <https://biblehub.com/greek/1382.htm> and character, <https://biblehub.com/greek/1382.htm> hope. <https://biblehub.com/greek/1680.htm>" Romans 5:4 http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180815/be02e43f/attachment.html>