Hmm...

I still love March Maddness, but man...

I was reading this article and had a couple thoughts.

"Gen M" where 'M' is for Mobile, or Morose, or Morbidly obese, or Mitigating circumstances, or somesuch. This labeling generations is a bit out of hand. Plus it leads to tragedy. Gen X brought us X-treme everything. I think I have some X-oranges to go with some X-campbell's soup for lunch. Gen Y (for y'n, that's whine for the rest of us) was overly pampered, wanted to be rebels and misunderstood and crap, but had absolutely no justification for such and so did things like have school massacres, attend raves, and buy Brittney Spears albums *shudder*. And now we have Gen M. Give me a friggin' break. They are about as pampered as gen Y (despite the economic downturn) but even more apathetic. When these people run the country, we are all doomed. As evidence:

"...college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention." In other words: kids are more useless than before and we have to turn classrooms into commercials for them to get it, oh, and I love the phrase "evanescent attention." Seriously, this is pandering and pampering so that little Johnny and lil' Sue don't fail, become meth addicts and spend the rest of their lives in their parents' basements playing video games and eating potato chips.

The article is pretty much on the money, except it's forgetting something. There is absolutely no reason for us to care. Parents who allow their children to spend 6+ hours a day "plugged-in" are useless, as their children will be later in life. This doesn't mean they won't get jobs and be well paid, but their value as human beings will be minimal.