The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein - Commentary Magazine.
Essay about The Dumbest Generation By Mark Bauerlein 1142 Words 5 Pages In his book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein claims that those who constitute the population of individuals under the age of thirty are members of the “dumbest generation”. He even goes to such an extreme as saying, “You guys don’t know anything,” (Bauerlein).The book titled “The Dumbest Generation” published in 2008, written by Mark Bauerlein, who is a “professor of English at Emory University and director of research and analysis at the National Endowment of Arts.” (back cover) The general thesis of this book is “How the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future,” which happens to be the subtitle of this book.While it is true that new technology has rewired our brains and led to shorter attention spans, the Millennial generation is not the “dumbest generation”, as Mark Bauerlein suggests, because the younger generations have higher IQ levels and because we pursue and use knowledge in different ways.
Essay The Dumbest Generation By Mark Bauerlein. In his book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein claims that those who constitute the population of individuals under the age of thirty are members of the “dumbest generation”. He even goes to such an extreme as saying, “You guys don’t know anything,” (Bauerlein). However, is this not true?Mark Bauerlein says we are the dumbest generation, and he has many things to make it seem like we are, however most people disagree with him, especially our generation. He says were the dumbest generation because of all the technology that’s in our lives. He also says that we were born with less intelligence than older generations like our.
The Dumbest Generation that wrote by Mark Bauerlein is one example. Bauerlein believes that digital culture and social media had burn young adults away from history, civic, literature, and all honorable arts.
