Re:What Happened with Lego (2013)
by jivardo_nucci on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:08PM
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I was brought up with Lincoln logs then Tinker Toys. When I saw Lego blocks I thought "Those are for dumb kids" and kept on tinkering. It's an easy step up to chemical models from Tinker Toys.
The difference is generational: the ultra-bright and creative Boomers used Tinker Toys and Erector Sets; the comparatively dull bricklaying Lego generations followed in the Boomers' wake. So much had to be changed to suit the latter:
- TinkerToys abandoned; Legos promoted.
- Cursive writing discarded; printing promoted.
- Pen & paper downgraded; typing promoted.
- SAT tests downgraded; quotas promoted.
- The rise of illiteracy and innumeracy in the USA falls in there someplace.
The difference is generational: the ultra-bright and creative Boomers used Tinker Toys and Erector Sets; the comparatively dull bricklaying Lego generations followed in the Boomers' wake. So much had to be changed to suit the latter:
- TinkerToys abandoned; Legos promoted.
- Cursive writing discarded; printing promoted.
- Pen & paper downgraded; typing promoted.
- SAT tests downgraded; quotas promoted.
- The rise of illiteracy and innumeracy in the USA falls in there someplace.