Comments on: Is Facebook rotting our children’s brains?

By: Ivelin Sardamov

Ivelin Sardamov — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:37:11 +0000

Indeed, such baseless moral panics have an ancient history. Just think of those Roman intellectuals who once fretted that the empire was rotting at the core – and could one day even succumb to the barbarians at its gate. As it turned out… Ooops – wrong analogy. Maybe a more recent example could work better, then. Take those Cassandras who (like Christopher Lasch) in the 1960s and 70s darkly warned that capitalism was eroding the Protestant ethic and spurning a culture of narcissistic gratification. And what have we seen instead? Succeeding generations of incorruptible political and business leaders whose only concern has been to leave behind an unblemished reputation and a larger vision of worldly success. And scores of cheesy reality shows which have withered away for lack of gullible eyeballs. And, of course, the coming generations will be even more morally upright and discerning. Even after the advent of the singularity – no doubt about that.

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By: dlende

dlende — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:04:28 +0000

P, I fixed the link. But here is another direct link to Susan Greenfield's House of Lords comments.