Re: MeToo Children's Program

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmenk wrote:

>               I know, all the kids are used to 
> whiz-bang graphics (of which I'm partly guilty) and 5.1 surround sound. 
>  You can't keep their ADD brains in front of a boring old computer for 
> long.

I was just watching a Nova show, which I used to consider a well made
"food for thought" show, and found it riddled with fast cuts, stupid
"revolving shots", and a general Sesame Street-inspired attitude (but
much more manic than Sesame Street used to be).

The material they presented in an hour (with lots of repetitious and
often irrelevant graphics) would have fit nicely in 20 minutes or less
of a more thoughtful exposition.  I've noticed this trend for some time,
but simply ascribed it to a desire to stretch sparse material to fill
a longer time slot...like the way some people BS in school reports to
avoid work.  Now I'm afraid it may be something much more sinister.

Is it me, or is the national attention span being degraded to less than
that expected by even a music video?

I'm really sick of eye candy that is absent any meaning or intellectual
nutritional value.  And I'm worried that we are training a whole nation
(planet?) of zap-pow addicts!  And when that's complete, who will do the
things that require more than five minutes of thought??  (Like voting!)

-michael

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