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Mar. 19th, 2016 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatNot sure about the accuracy in places, and I think it oversimplified a few things here and there...but otherwise fun and informative. (Which to be honest is how I feel about 90% of the things I see on the internet. I take all of it with a hefty grain of salt and you, dear readers, should too.) I snagged it from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elsie who snagged it from Tumblr, who snagged it from Youtube. Gotta love the internet...information, valid or not, is just a click away.
elsie who snagged it from Tumblr, who snagged it from Youtube. Gotta love the internet...information, valid or not, is just a click away.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2016-03-19 10:36 pm (UTC)I was discussing this with a friend recently, how many of my co-workers, who are 10-15 years younger than me -- don't know who the Presidents of the US were. Or their history. Some do, a lot don't. They didn't take History or Humanities in school, they focused on important stuff like finance, business, and science. As a result, they are insanely dumb about certain things. And think Fox News, Newsday, and the newspapers are telling the truth. (Sigh).
I see it on lj and social media as well --- a tendency to like the sound-bites. A lack of patience for in-depth information.
And a heavy reliance on fictional re-enactments or retellings.
There's a great article in the New Yorker about Google and the death of factual information:
Entitled the End of Facts (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts?mbid=social_facebook) -- which gets across how information becomes warped via social media and through the internet.
It's hard to be clear on what is true. I mean the video on Japan is most likely accurate, but it has taken some incredibly complicated information from another culture, and reduced it to fun sound-bites palpable to a Western audience.
Not that there is anything wrong with that per se, but like you said -- the danger is the viewer won't dig deeper. Most won't, unless their interest is sparked.