I am reading “Why Johnny Can’t Preach” by T. David Gordon at the moment. In it, he quotes David Denby’s book on literacy “Great Books” in which Denby observes the kid growing up watching lots of television…
“He knows that everything in the media is transient, disposable. Everything on television is just for the moment – it’s just television – and the kids pick up this derisive tone, the sense that nothing is truly serious. As they get older, David Letterman functions as their prince of irony: They learn from him that every part of their identity can be taken back; everything is a role, a put-on.”
Hmmm… and we wonder why kids do what they do on Facebook without thinking of consequences? We wonder how ‘Girls Gone Wild’ finds so many willing college girls to film?
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