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Subject: 
Re: Markets and juniorization
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:08:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
We are creating a generation of lazy kids:

"Daddy, it's too hard!"
"What is, son?"
"This game you're trying to teach me!"
"It's called 'Hide and Seek', son! Would you rather build LEGO?"
"Nah, it is too complicated. I wanna play that game on the Computer! At
least I get to see green stuff spilling out of the dead guys! AND all I got
to do is press a bunch of buttons!"

A possible future?


Reminds me of the Roger Water's song "Amused to Death"...

(FUT: off-topic.fun)

-H.



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  Re: Markets and juniorization
 
(...) Better still, why won't LEGO design toys that will *force* kids to use their brains? I am getting sick and tired of having kids so "TV-dependant" that they cannot articulate words properly any longer. (...) Do WE? It is a sociological issue: (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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