From: American Greatness <chris@amgreatness.com>
To: add1dda@aol.com
Sent: Sat, Jun 11, 2022 8:30 am
Subject: Thaddeus G. McCotter: The Murder of Wisdom?
The Murder of Wisdom?
By Thaddeus G. McCotter
My late father called it the "boob tube." He did so not because of the rise, in the 1970s, of so-called "jiggle TV." He only watched sports and the news.
As a teacher, he loathed the deleterious effects television viewing had upon the intellectual practices and acumen of the populace, especially students. He contended that sitting for hours every day and every night in front of the TV to be passively entertained prevented people from actively learning and experiencing life. Perhaps even more than a formal education, he argued, these active experiences provided the life lessons needed later in adulthood to help provide wisdom. In sum, he believed TV stunted not only the acquisition of knowledge but the accumulation of experiences and life lessons necessary for applying that knowledge wisely.
And he made his case long before the people he called "educated idiots" and social media murdered wisdom.
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As a teacher, he loathed the deleterious effects television viewing had upon the intellectual practices and acumen of the populace, especially students. He contended that sitting for hours every day and every night in front of the TV to be passively entertained prevented people from actively learning and experiencing life. Perhaps even more than a formal education, he argued, these active experiences provided the life lessons needed later in adulthood to help provide wisdom. In sum, he believed TV stunted not only the acquisition of knowledge but the accumulation of experiences and life lessons necessary for applying that knowledge wisely.
And he made his case long before the people he called "educated idiots" and social media murdered wisdom.
Full article
3 comments:
" My late father called it the "boob tube." He did so not because of the rise, in the 1970s, of so-called "jiggle TV." He only watched sports and the news."
GRA:I don't even watch THAT anymore,lol.Some Youtube,horse racing.
--GRA
All our knowledge brings us near to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death, no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
--T.S.Elliot(from the piece.)
GRA:There are many things we learn,which are not knowledge.
As humans,the knowledge we seek is not knowable.
Elliot's observations sound important,but are not.
He was as clueless as the rest of us--but camouflaged it
with writing technique.
Elliot is either still clueless--or he isn't.
--GRA
Wisdom to the extent it ever did exist gone a long time ago USA. And I fear never coming back.
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