Problems with Susan Greenfield’s short attention span
Posted in WTF?!elevlen1 by St33v on Friday, 20 March 2009.On the 7.30 report last night Susan_Greenfield said that computer games are ruining children’s minds.
She sez that computer games alter children’s brains by replacing the real world - where events occur in a sequential narrative, choices are made and consequences occur - with an instant gratification shoot-em-up simulacrum [my word not hers but aint it a great one?].
Ho Hum. It seems to me that the brains of some grown ups must develop into a state that dictates that if they didn’t experience something when they were young, it must be bad. Look at Nicola Roxon, who thinks that alcopops are a dire threat to teenage girls. She has been silent on how her generation avoided certain ruin at the hands of Brandevino and Passiona.
As Hesiod is said to have said:
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint.
I was so disturbed by the interview that I immeadiately got online and started blasting away at anything that moved in Urban Terrror.
Susan, AYBABTU.