[lbo-talk] Internet's downside

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Oct 26 20:28:14 PDT 2009


Dennis Claxton wrote:


> So who has evidence backing up this internet killed the outdoors and
> physical contact theory?

No one has. Just as no onehad evidence that comic books were turning children into sex perverts or that the TV was keeping kids in doors or . . . .

These intergenrational comparisons are almost always bogus, and when they are valid they are still meaningless.

They always pose for me the image of tobacco=chewing, bib-overalled, grizzled old men sitting before the general store and whining, Things Aint like they usta be.

Carrol



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