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among Americans young and old (the "Flynn Effect") and the lack
of any improvement in their reading skills and general cultural
knowledge. He attributes the phenomenon to demographic fragmentation of our society over several generations driven by educational trends, affluence, and technological innovations, which
effectively isolate the young in their own subculture devoid of
adult knowledge and experience or traditional wisdom.
This may be an explanation for why men of my generation
find altogether counterintuitive the mode of operation of the
ingenious electronic devices produced by these brilliant young
abstract thinkers, and it certainly explains why their reading and
writing skills, when they turned up in my university literature
classes in recent decades, were so exiguous for all their digital
acumen. Bauerlein's remedy? "The solution is easy to conceive
but impossible to implement. Parents and mentors need to
spend more time conversing with youths, reading the newspaper
together, going on cultural outings, taking walks, and otherwise
cutting into the ample after-school hours of social life and adding
grown-up affairs to the menu of adolescence" (30).
Bauerlein is aware of formidable obstacles to the implementation: "How can a parent in a single-parent home find the time
and energy to do so, especially with sulky teens who relate only
to one another? How can mentors curtail youth culture when the
goods and styles of it form a mega-industry that showers kids
with marketing and plays upon status and consumer competition?" He concludes with this rather wan prescription: "I know of
no way to slow this hazardous social experiment except to broadcast as widely as possible the intellectual damage it has done and
will continue to do" (30-31).
The progressive educational, political, and media elites who
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