From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   > Ben Collver  wrote or quoted:   
      
   >>Has social media engineered the collapse of the human mind?   
   >   
   > Already in the 70s, we had a band named "Devo", who believed   
   > mankind had begun to regress.   
      
   Never mind the 1970s, how about the 370s BCE?   
      
       “And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a   
       paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to   
       them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours   
       will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will   
       not use their memories; they will trust to the external written   
       characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you   
       have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and   
       you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth;   
       they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing;   
       they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;   
       they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the   
       reality.”   
      
   --   
   https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)