the quest for identity in the 21st century, by Susan Greenfield [a baroness], and isbn 9780340936009 is a book that attempts to ‘id’ identity today but forgets much about current society.
It rehashes the argument that tv is bad, the internet is bad etc while the eminent scientist splashes around case studies of 18th century victims of brain injuries whom lived to tell the tale as curios for the brain professors and still are pumped out as expert evidence two hundred years later.
Was the past better ?, i would argue that the internet requires skills that children of the 1950’s would say only use twice a year outside of school in say writing out of a school context, and much of the fud out there today was made by politicians.
Lets face facts
- science cant fix old age, or mental disease
- science knows very little about the brain
but somehow these people know what is good for people, however if say you make a mistake and get associated with being drunk once on facebook then some idiot in hr will take that as proof your an alcoholic.
Yes id can taken to an extreme, but who cares that children might have to read something in book is ‘good’ but on a screen is considered bad.
Ms Greenfield should consider some stuff before troting out pap like this.
0/5 bananas
Like four firewalls on windows vista (no im not joking)
