The dumbest generation

"The ignorance is hard to believe ... It isn't enough to say that these young people are uninterested in world realities. They are actively cut off from them. ... They are encased in more immediate realities that shut out conditions beyond -- friends, work, clothes, cars, pop music, sitcoms, Facebook.'' 


The quote is a true statement from a majority standpoint about the youth of today. Politics and other world realities do not interest us. Therefore, we will never have a say in any political decision. The world today is all about fashion, trends on social media, and reality television. As a unit we are loosing sight on what is going on around the United States let alone across the world because many kids can not put their cell phone down.  Also many kids care about fitting in by knowing all the trends, getting all the fashion gear that education becomes irrelevant. Personally, you can not put the whole blame on the children for not knowing what goes on around besides their social life. The way society is run today, social life is the one distraction that can make or break a person. Many people get caught up in the social life.  Majority of the caught up individuals are the kids. American Society is okay with that. The officials of the United States want the kids not to pay an attention to their decision making or their actions. By doing so, they have reality shows and celebrity endorsements all over television so people would pay more attetntion to celebrities than they do the world around them. 


 "The problem is that instead of using the Web to learn about the wide world, young people instead mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting lingua franca of being cool in school". 


Young people have no desire to learn something on a cerebral content. It is sad to say that many people lost a lot of faith in the future generation. The quote is very factual. Everyone wants to fit in and be the popular kid in school instead of expressing their individuality.  People want to be a clone to another individual. The generation before us would not expect the future generation to take advantage of how they pave the way for us to live by our morals. In the past, the government was resticting the youth freedom by having them work long hours in hazardous working conditions with out health insurance if you can not afford it.  Young people are taking an advantage of the little leeway the goverment gives us. Lately, young people go to jail for other people committing suicide for the remarks that was shocased on social websites and apps.   


"They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski". 


 The quote explains how a guy feels that the internet is subtracting his IQ points. This guy was familiar with a lot of information when he was taking his time to grasp it.  Ever since he tries to conserve information like a computer, he looses focus. The guy does not take his time grasping information briefly. He compares himself to a guy on a jet ski from being a scuba diver in a sea of words.  Latel, he skims through words as well as other information.


Miss teen America


 I did not grasp on how the People in the U.S can not find U.S on the map.  Her answer was a dumb. I have a feeling Mario Lopez and the other judges find that response a head scratcher.  You can infer that she did not pay attention in history class. She brought South Africa into the response. I have a  feeling people was looking at her sideways.