Surprisingly enough, not too many people rely on Snapple tops to get their information. That could be attributed to the fact that some people are too good for random facts or more likely that college kids are too stingy to buy the delicious drink. Who says Snapple education cant make you a well rounded person?
No, instead it appears that the flock of sheep that is our generation uses the internet for at least some if not all of their information gathering. But is that a bad thing? I would argue that its not. As I said in my paper, it is time to accept, adapt and embrace the new technology era of which the internet is at the forefront. It is so easy to open your laptop, type in nytimes.com and figure out what is happening in our world. This is opposed to waiting until the next morning, walking all the way out to the driveway (usually uphill both ways in a blizzard), getting the paper (which is not environmentally chic and killing trees), open up the awkward sized thing (which, when you do, hits everybody in a pretty substantial radius in the face) and participating in the ensuing fight to keep it upright and readable.
Im sure Clive Thompson would agree with the above statement, whereas Chris Hedges would probably argue that this is exactly what is perpetuating our illiteracy problem.
Go away, Hedges. Be a debbie downer somewhere else.
I was wondering why I was reading references to Snapple in other class blogs. Those facts could really raise your trivia game. I learned that "the bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps."
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