[lys3rg0]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'L')ook at what's happening to the sex ratios in the colleges. Every year there are less guys and more girls. Guess who the heavy electronic game players are? Hint: Not the girls.

The struggles of boys in schools these days is well-documented. The girls are leaving those brain-dead heavy-gaming boys way behind. It didn't used to be this way. It has only come about lately.

It is not a coincidence.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lys3rg0', '.')..An interresting take on the reasons for this difference in academic performance between genders can be found here: LINKY.
waiting for your opinion, Z

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', 'S')eparated at birth?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')But, like PMS said, there seems to be some real cognitive issues, and, as Fred said, "boys are going down".

[NEOPO]

Hmmmm can anyone besides Raphael see through the B.S. people like PMS and Zardoz spew?
I am getting good vibes from purcatty

Is this holy shit getting thicker and thicker or is it just me?
They are actually trying to place the blame on the women or "feminist" movement here.
Ya see there is the "official" feminist movement and then there is the real empowering free thinking women's movement...my friends.

Wtf? I am all man yet its like my phallic gaydar went off as I see how they try to twist it.
You sick sad people you.

Go watch some reruns of 24 or something will ya, ya botha us
Yeah too much data.....uhm for you maybe! ahahah
Censor it!..... wtf right?
We censor most art now anyways.
Maybe its the drugs or that "devil" music our government is producing to help us sleep or those cool fear mongering movies like 24 which helps us to dream our dreams.

Who's the "they" PMS?
ANYONE BUT YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT?

Yeah we see through the B.S. with 20/20 visions.
Viva la PO purcatty!
Om brother Raphael.
Jato! your eyes really were opened it seems...I am always sorry for the individual when this happens like a true christian at a birth yet happy all at once ...hard to explain.... Welcome.

lys3rg0 - nice try but no I dont think so.
The LOGIC is correct but the THOUGHT is flawed and you will get this over and over again as in ALMOST everything that seems to be a great truth is alittle white lie and vice versa.
Its not always intentional yet it happens and many fall for it.

I will walk outside the line now but I will return with my verdict ultimately.

<speaks directly toward the eye of sauron>
Honestly you guys had me till maybe 6th grade and then I wanted to experiment with life outside the classroom, you know... the real world that we were fucking up at a fantastic rate as we listened to you....
Yeah that world....the one you try to deny exists, the one you tell us is fucked up but will be fixed with technology if we would only listen to you or that world that is fucked up beyond repair so why even try....
I see you!
<snaps out of it>

I experienced a good mix of both male and female teachers and I can honestly say that I was equally impressed and bored out of my fucking mind all at the same time with both yet is this a sad consequence of something or perhaps it was a manipulation???

Come on, I was counting in binary code and typing in basic programming at 7 or 8 years old. My father was on the enterprise and worked on its computers when they were the size of rooms.
College level algebra I could do in my head but I could never show my work....go figure....rules and all that ahahahahah some of us just never LEARN do we?!

The system is fucked to its very core, rotten from the inside out.
Founded on the blood of indigenous peoples and built with the sweat of slaves while information revealing the horror of the jewish holocaust abounds......as another quiet genocide is occuring NOW.
For oil, for us!

We are all guilty but only a few of us realize it and want to do something about it besides eat ramen noodles and type on a moniter while the world slowly fades away.

How dare you try to align yourself with Aaron as he may not agree with all that we say yet he is DOING SOMETHING and thats everything more then you are doing besides slowly rotting.

Yeah!!!

I get the funny feeling neither one of you want any and go about frequently biting off more then you can chew.
Let me know if I may have gotten you wrong.

<returns to "raging" lotus position chanting om ma ni pe me hung>

[Zardoz]

So, from this...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')ou think it's video games. I say it's a cultural shift away from repression. Qutb said it's the sanction of individualism. Fred said, well we know what he said.

[rsch20]

I recommend the book "Everything Bad is Good For You" by Steven Johnson for both of you discussing the issue of 'brain drain' and overstimulation etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Bad-Go ... 058&sr=8-1

It makes the case, that video games, and popular culture, are making us smarter not dumber.

It cites increasing complexity in television programming as demonstrating the publics ability to juggle more complex and abundant information.

It explores the effects of video games and makes some very intelligent observations, that they teach the scientific method by the very nature, and 'excersice' the mind. One example is that it cites a study where people showed increased spatial awareness after playing a half hour of medal of honor, and also a study that showed that london cab drivers section of the brain that dealt with spatial awareness was larger than the average londoner, and that veteran cab drivers also had a larger area than newer drivers.

It cites "Flynn Effect", which is the trend of increasing intelligence in most parts of the world (in other words, you are completely wrong about people being smarter 50 years ago and 'brain drain).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_Effect

It also notes that the Flynn Effect only measures IQ scores, and does not measure emtional intelligence or creativity, and he makes arguments that both of those have increased as well.

It was an interesting read, mainly I was drawn to comment by the 'brain drain' thing which you both agree on and are wrong about.

[halcyon]

Getting back to the original topic.

If you saw 'The Power of Nightmares - The Rise of the Politics of Fear', I suggest you also see other works by Alan Curtis, the author behind The Power of Nightmares:

Pandora's Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf0ORy4BzMY

The Century of the Shelf
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/08/century-of-self.html

The Trap
http://adamcurtistrap.blogspot.com/

Very well worth watching all of them, even if you don't agree with all of his arguments.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'S')o, from this...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')ou think it's video games. I say it's a cultural shift away from repression. Qutb said it's the sanction of individualism. Fred said, well we know what he said.