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Your doctor is likely smart enough to google how to change a lightbulb. And your doctor's children (and your own) are coding the software that run their games. Don't be dismissive of useful 21st century skills. I don't know how to shoe a horse OR rebuild a transmission, but I know how to search online for someone who does - if my life upends and I need someone to do one of those things.When a society forgets to do menial tasks they are in fact dumber. I have seen doctors that I would bet a dime to a dollar cannot unscrew a light bulb. As a society we forget that as complicated as todays systems are to us, the technology of any time was just as complicated to those in that time. The engineers who invented the computer for example could probably still change their own oil and flat tire and more than likely do their own tuneup.
My wife is the perfect example of the dumbing down God bless her soul......She is not stupid, but is so reliant on technology that she cannot even read a map. We are becoming so smart we are forgetting how to do simple tasks like that. Ask a 20 year old today how to replace a toilet. It takes about 30 minutes and just a wrench and a screwdriver. Better yet, ask that same 20 year old to show you how to use a tape measure. Yes. We are becoming dumber. Technology is getting better and soon will even be driving for us. We will be the dumber for it.
While I can drive a car with a manual transmission, AND write in cursive, it's amazing how useless both of those abilities are in 2021. Kids these days are just as smart and accomplished as geezers, they're just smart and accomplished in more useful ways.
Let's move on from this kind of stereotyping.
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