Well, try to think back to elementary school. The things you and your friends discussed, your activities and beliefs, and other facets of your childhood. When I refer to exposure to knowledge on the internet I'm talking about perfectly acceptable things such as myspace or advertisements, message boards, corporate websites... etc.
These are all facilities of communication between civilians and corporate america. People, children included, face barrages of information with every click. They are told what to wear, what to think, what's cool, what's acceptable. Children are no longer content to be children. And though it may prove technologically beneficial in the long run, since we're grasping the fundamentals of technology at increasingly early ages, psychologically it's bound to take it's toll. Yes, children are becoming smarter all the time. But perhaps early in the human development cycle a little ignorance and informational isolation is required to keep what is learned in it's proper perspective. A child needs time to figure out who he or she is before being swamped with cultural demands.

For instance: if a child's most adored website insists that J-Lo is the creme de la creme of music, he or she might feel way too cool to be exposed to such socially unacceptable boredom as Beethoven or more appropriately, Yes.
What becomes of a race that slowly exchanges personal identity for a unified consciousness?

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