As everybody knows, just in the past few years the proliferation of new media means that more and more people are doomed to be “unable to learn anything, to know anything well and to concentrate their minds upon anything.” It’s brain rot, that’s what it is, and it’s something that has never happened before.
No, wait, that quote, and the term “brain rot,” are from 1899. It was printed magazines that were the culprit in those days. Whatever’s new seems to be scary, and terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad effects are sure to follow.
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