Intrigued by The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. The book’s cover features a warning label (or alternate subtitle): “Do Not Trust Anyone Under 30.” (My recent 30th birthday must have been a relief to all my advertisers and sponsors — now you can trust me.) I’m intrigued because I can’t figure out which side of the argument I fall on; I largely agree with these criticisms, but I also agree with the contrary argument that everything bad is good for you. I also might happen to be a representative failure of this new generation, a purposeless boomerang who can’t grow up… But then I found the perfect statement to express my position; here’s how Princeton’s David Robinson ends his recent Wall Street Journal review of the book: “In short, the children of future years will learn from their elders how to make the most of digital life just as soon as there are elders in place to offer instruction. The ‘elders’ now don’t seem to have a clue.” To be continued…
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