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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of Mark Bauerlein's "The Dumbest Generation". Assumptions are supported with references to outside texts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the shifting paradigm. The younger generation at any given time has always explored new values and ways of interacting with the world, but the advent of the digital age and
its emphasis on information technology has fundamentally changed many aspects of American culture, including how we read, how we communicate with one another, how we write, and how we learn.
There are many who expound upon the dramatic potential for education that the digital age brings to the American population, but not everyone is so certain. Some cultural critics such
as Mark Bauerlein posit that the growing dependency upon digital technology to communicate and learn represents a major intellectual weakness in the younger generation that is a more severe and
glaring deficiency than any that has been previously encountered. This paper will explore Bauerleins treatise, "The Dumbest Generation", in an attempt to outline his arguments, and explore their veracity as
a coherent statement on the condition of youth in the 21st century digital age. Bauerleins text begins with a central thesis that utterly rejects the supposedly untapped potential of the
digital age, and reveals it as something of a hollow replacement for a foundation in traditional learning and socialization. He writes early on that "never have the opportunities for education,
learning, political action, and cultural activity been greater", but young people are, in his view, simply not taking advantage of this potential whatsoever; instead, they are wallowing in isolation and
ignorance, unable to engage with texts meaningfully due to an ingrained illiteracy, unable to recognize and identify with their cultural heritage, and unwilling to learn about or engage with the
actual political happenings of the offline world (Bauerlein 2008, p. 9). Bauerleins argument, developed over the course of the text, acts as something of a counter-polemic; rather than building up
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