Essays on Dumber

Rapid innovations in entertainment and communication instruments have drastically changed how individuals interact and exercise their brain capacity. Unlimited consumption of social media and popular culture has made people more dumper. People spend more time working on the trivialities of life and have abandoned the pursuit of death in politics and social life. The argument forwarded in this paper is that despite advances in technology, human beings are not getting smarter but dumber. The ability of a few individuals to come up with meaningful innovation have left the rest of mankind to consume without reflection. Gottfredson’s argument that ...

Surrounding the issue of people getting smarter or dumber in the present age, there is a great conflict in deciding definitely whether people are getting dumber with the passing time or is technology and modernity making them smarter. It is chiefly to determine what smartness or dumbness is, and this is marked by the ability to use the present technological advances to mark one’s intellectual capabilities. Therefore, it can be said that people today are not getting dumber, in fact, they are getting smarter, and their mental capabilities are enhanced because of the use of technology in everyday ...

How Can We Minimize the Negative Effects and Enhance the Positive Effects?

An intense debate over the usefulness of internet is shaping the 21st century’s social and educational discourse. While some sustain that internet helps individuals in acquiring information in an facile and effective manner, reducing the time of searching through its optimized programs and tools, others insist that internet is making people dumber because of its distracting feature (Carr, 2010). In fact, internet has become a part of humans’ everyday existence, improving it in many aspects. Nevertheless, the argument that new technology is affecting humans’ focus, distracting them still remains an issue, which fortunately can be addressed through specific strategies ...

Interpersonal Critique of Dumb and Dumber

Introduction The purpose of a comedy film is obviously to make you laugh. However, there are comedies that really make you laugh out loud, put you through suspense, action, and the ultimate result would be a funny thrilling experience; Dumb and Dumber is one of such films. In this 1994 blockbuster, two dim-witted friends accidentally steal a suitcase full of money; it becomes very comical when they try to return the money to the rightful owner. This paper will review the movie Dumb and Dumber and expound on how it is packed with interpersonal communication. In this comic movie, renowned ...

Argumentative Essay:

Who would have thought that not only the computer, but internet, and the access it provides would become as fast, and limitless as it has become today. Just like the universe, the internet, and its content, is expanding exponentially. Every day, internet users are caught in the stream of endless content - new and old - all accessible with just the click of a button. There is literally nothing a savvy user can’t find on there. But does having such a vast amount of content at our fingertips make us smarter? By the end of this paper you will see that ...

Introduction

Television holds a very important purpose in the lives of every viewer. The perception of whether this particular purpose is a bad one or a good one is entirely dependent on the viewer. An article written by Steven Johnson and titled Watching TV Makes You Smarter appeared in the New York Times in the year 2005. This particular article has generated a lot of debate on whether television makes the viewer more intelligent or dumber. In the article, Johnson blatantly suggests and asserts that watching television actually makes us, the viewers smarter. He begins his article with a statement that says that television watching ...