When life gets too complicated -- and it has -- whattya do? Either keep up or give up! Seems like most of us have chosen the second. We tend to reduce every complexity into a simplicity. Take today's gaffe/gotcha gig...!
Instead of thinking things through, too many of us go through life using cliff notes. They didn't teach us much in our Shakespeare or History classes, but what the heck, it's so much easier this way. So now every politician or celebrity is mainly defined by their latest gaffe (as if our lives aren't one long series of gaffes); followed by the inevitable sleazy gotcha report we laugh over at the water cooler (as if we're not being laughed at at the other water cooler).
What's worse, now the next generation is already way ahead of us in this gig. Stats show the average 8-18 year old spends almost every out-of-school hour on the Internet, watching television, listening to music on MP3 players, texting, tweeting or facebooking.
Thinking with cliff notes got us poor grades in class....what will they get us in life?
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