When I was a boy, dictionaries, encyclopediae and libraries were the repositories of knowledge. If you wanted to research something or have a question answered, you utilised one of these resources. Now apparently YouTube is the omniscient oracle before which everyone under age thirty bows down, and all it takes is some idiot mouthing off in a homemade video shot in his mother’s basement to throw the Interwebs into a frenzy of trolling and ill-tempered ‘debate’. I wish people would renounce their intellectual laziness, get off their gluteae maximae and put a little elbow grease into some old-school-style research and critical thinking. The steep decline in general intelligence of the past thirty-odd years is no joke, and will lead to self-wrought catastrophe for our civilisation unless we take steps to prevent it.
the solcitation of CAFmembers to go to another site and join a debate or swarm that site is not allowed on this forum.
Professor Peter Kreeft laments the lack of critical thinking skills these days. So many hear it or see it and simply believe - unquestioning. They’ve been programmed by the media and pop culture.