{"id":2440,"date":"2009-12-28T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:33:50","slug":"is-google-makin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/is-google-makin\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200807\/google\">Blah blah Internets blah blah easily distracted changing the way we think<\/a> ooo linky to Amazon blah blah <em>hold <\/em>on let&#8217;s read this more carefully (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network\u2019s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web\u2014the more links we click and pages we view\u2014the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements. Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link\u2014the more crumbs, the better. <strong>The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It\u2019s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;In Plato\u2019s <em>Phaedrus<\/em>, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue\u2019s characters, \u201ccease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.\u201d And <strong>because they would be able to \u201creceive a quantity of information without proper instruction,\u201d they would \u201cbe thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.\u201d <\/strong>They would be \u201cfilled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1586172565?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=twosleepymomm-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1586172565\"><em>Leisure: The Basis of Culture<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=twosleepymomm-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1586172565\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=10893\">acedia<\/a>, any one of the swarms of ignorant pundits out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blah blah Internets blah blah easily distracted changing the way we think ooo linky to Amazon blah blah hold on let&#8217;s read this more carefully (emphasis added): The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network\u2019s reigning business model&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/is-google-makin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,8,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-catechesis","category-commonplace-book","category-squirrel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}