Comments | caitri: Continuing the Age of Irrationality, or, I Can't Think of a Better Title

caitri

Continuing the Age of Irrationality, or, I Can't Think of a Better Title

Feb 14, 2008 11:41

Today’s NYT brings us yet more cultural handwringing via an Op-Ed with the glimmering title of ”Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?”.

Ms. Jacoby, whose book came out on Tuesday, doesn’t zero in on a particular technology or emotion, but rather on what she feels is a generalized hostility to knowledge. She is well aware that some ( Read more... )

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Re: It has SO been done bfore caitri February 15 2008, 04:19:12 UTC

Cultural handwringing is just one of those things that bugs me. It just does. And then I have to rant about it when it happens.

It's a thing.

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