I don't think that "stupid" is the right word. I see it more along the lines of just plain lazy.
Google has made us lazy in so many ways. We have become so accustomed to just logging on to our computer, typing in google.com, and searching for whatever it is we want to find. No one uses books anymore. No one goes to museums. It's all on the internet now.
How many students have been assigned a book to read for class and have actually read it? There are a select few out there who actually read the novel but I can bet that most of the kids out there have searched the title of the book on the internet and have somehow come across sparknotes.com. What a great invention...
All the internet is is just a million and one pages of quick reviews. I think that we have been brainwashed into thinking that if an essay has more than one or two pages, then it is a waste of our time. We just want to get things done quickly and efficiently. After a few paragraphs, we get bored and just stop reading. What the hell is going on? Because of Google and the millions of other fact sights, we have become so lazy that we cannot even get through a two page essay. Lets's be honest here...
Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of people's responses to this article have noted that we are just lazy as humans. I agree with this as well; the internet just gives us the keys to that sports car (pardon the terrible metaphor). I personally haven't used that wonderful invention of SparkNotes, but does sound like it caters to those who want to do things almost instantly.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulously fantastical blog post, by the way!