Social Media Endangers Knowledge

Re:Social Media Endangers Knowledge by narag on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:37AM (#15530757)

Wow, this article's claim that text is what enables us to think is incredibly elitist.

But is it true?

Are illiterate people incapable of rational thought? Oral traditions are deep wellsprings of human knowledge and culture.

Knowledge and culture is not the same as rational thought. Of course you can reason without writing, but the manipulation of thoughts is much easier when you can write them, the same as you can make calculations much more easily when you can write the operations.

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Re:Social Media Endangers Knowledge by thepompano on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:45AM (#15533086)

But is it true?

You wouldn't know from the article, because the author of the article doesn't cite any studies and just sort of takes Neil Postman's word for it.

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