And on Nero fiddled while Rome burned… (aaand now I feel like I need to start appending eli5-esque, super simplistic breakdowns of what I’m saying at the end of my comments…)
Though, I gotta say, this does explain why I’ve noticed such a seeming up-tick in people staring just absolutely nonsensical arguments with me on here because they can’t seem to understand that I’m making points im favor of their argument to begin with lol
Though, I gotta say, this does explain why I’ve noticed such a seeming up-tick in people staring just absolutely nonsensical arguments with me on here because they can’t seem to understand that I’m making points im favor of their argument to begin with lol
Within the last 24hrs, I had an argument with someone who… proposed concept A as a solution, then proposed concept B, which explicitly discarded and contradicted concept A, as another solution… just back to back, mere sentences apart.
I pointed out that not only would neither A nor B work as a solution… but that A and B also contradicted each other, and that this person just isn’t eve making sense, because they do not seem to even be aware that A and B contradict each other.
This person replies with a giant rant about ‘how could you even think that they contradict each other unless you read one sentence after another and think of it all at the same time?’
I really wish I was making this up.
This person did not comprehend the idea that… a paragraph of sentences build off of and relate and refer to each other, and are more that just a list of completely isolated bullet points.
They actually could not grasp the concept … that a concept may take more than a single sentence to convey.
I mean… entirely seriously:
A large percentage of them are also functionally illiterate.
https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-parents-children-reading-literacy-crisis-2081875
The % of kids that ‘read for fun everyday’ has dropped from 35% in 1984 to 14% in 2023.
Functionally illiterate reading levels of the whole US population?
19% in 2017.
28% in 2023.
Again, for emphasis: 28% of all Americans are functionally illiterate.
They can’t read beyond a ‘Hop on Pop’ level.
Nearly a third of the US population is at a 2nd grade reading level.
And that near 10% increase in 6 years… thats 6 years of Zoomers graduating high school and becoming adults.
… Only gonna be worse for Gen Alpha.
And on Nero fiddled while Rome burned… (aaand now I feel like I need to start appending eli5-esque, super simplistic breakdowns of what I’m saying at the end of my comments…)
Though, I gotta say, this does explain why I’ve noticed such a seeming up-tick in people staring just absolutely nonsensical arguments with me on here because they can’t seem to understand that I’m making points im favor of their argument to begin with lol
Reddit for the past 5 years
Within the last 24hrs, I had an argument with someone who… proposed concept A as a solution, then proposed concept B, which explicitly discarded and contradicted concept A, as another solution… just back to back, mere sentences apart.
I pointed out that not only would neither A nor B work as a solution… but that A and B also contradicted each other, and that this person just isn’t eve making sense, because they do not seem to even be aware that A and B contradict each other.
This person replies with a giant rant about ‘how could you even think that they contradict each other unless you read one sentence after another and think of it all at the same time?’
I really wish I was making this up.
This person did not comprehend the idea that… a paragraph of sentences build off of and relate and refer to each other, and are more that just a list of completely isolated bullet points.
They actually could not grasp the concept … that a concept may take more than a single sentence to convey.