RE: (TV) Re: Ipods/Analogue/Dreamtime Production Revisited/Qs

["Scott Simpson" <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com>]

No, I have to disagree.  I work with a lot of teenagers in scouts in the
inner city and they are absolutely swamped with stimuli.  And they go
absolutely bonkers the minute stimuli is cut off, like taking them out into
the woods with no headphones.  They don't know how to hold a conversation or
watch a drama.  They can only absorb and react to soundbites.  This is not a
gross generalization.  I'm putting two of my three daughters into this
group, and we're a household that can actually turn off the tv on occasion
and read for enjoyment.

Biggest difference, my generation actually grew up when there were times
when there really was nothing on television and we would have to actually
turn off the telly and go outside make our own entertainment.  Now, kids can
watch Full House reruns for five hours a day and do the same thing tomorrow.

Scott, NYC

 

-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Rex
Broome
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:38 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) Re: Ipods/Analogue/Dreamtime Production Revisited/Qs

robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> which may be part of another change, which is the remote control / 
> video game syndrome, a lack of a developed attention span.  two or 
> three minutes attention to anything, then move on.

Although the loss of the LP bums me out, I'm not sure I buy the
diminishing-attention-span argument.  I'm in my mid-thirties and *my*
generation was supposedly lobotomized by videogames and music videos, too.
I've no doubt the Beatles and the Stones were blamed before we had Pac-Man.

Which is not to say that average people aren't stupid.  I'm just not sure
they're that much stupid-*er* than they always were.  Marketing is maybe a
little slicker, or something like that.

-Rex

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