/lit/ - Literature

>>5043664
>infants today don't use the same stuff infants of yore used
You think kids in the 80s could use pic related?

>>5043685
This is a good point, but I'd consider building blocks a pretty fundamental concept distinct from age.

At any family event, my cousin turns up and sits in silence on her 3DS and iPad and does nothing else. Apparently she's like that all the time.

>>5043719
When I was a kid, I used to spend every single family event reading a book and talking to nobody, even at the fucking restaurant. I turned out pretty bad.

>Heidegger believed the Western world to be on a trajectory headed for total war,[36] and on the brink of profound nihilism[37] (the rejection of all religious and moral principles),[38] which would be the purest and highest revelation of Being itself,[39] offering a horrifying crossroads of either salvation or the end of metaphysics and modernity;[40] rendering the West a wasteland populated by tool-using brutes, characterized by an unprecedented ignorance and barbarism[41] in which everything is permitted.[42] He thought the latter possibility would degenerate mankind generally into scientists, workers and brutes;[43] living under the last mantle of one of three ideologies, Americanism, Marxism or Nazism[44] (which he deemed metaphysically identical, as avatars of subjectivity and institutionalized nihilism),[45] and an unfettered totalitarian world technology.[43] Supposedly, this epoch would be ironically celebrated, as the most enlightened and glorious in human history.[46] He envisaged this abyss to be the greatest event in the West's history because it would enable Humanity to comprehend Being more profoundly and primordially than the Pre-Socratics.[47]

ITS HAPPENING

>>5043664
>Moral panic theme of today: iPads
Come on Britain, you can do it better

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10917305/Schools-face-closure-if-they-fail-to-promote-British-values.html

Oh yes, this is much better...

>>5043731
>He thought the latter possibility would degenerate mankind generally into scientists, workers and brutes;[43] living under the last mantle of one of three ideologies, Americanism, Marxism or Nazism

>>5043729
When I was a kid, I used to spend every single family event without a book and talking to nobody, even at the fucking restaurant. I turned out pretty even worse.

>>5043740
>Schools face being closed down by the government if they fail to promote British values such as ensuring children know the difference between right and wrong, under plans to prevent extremism in the classroom.
>Schools face being closed down by the government [...] under plans to prevent extremism in the classroom.