<![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> The amazing and wonderful thing about this, and what is perhaps missing from today's popular/mainstream kids shows, is that THIS IS A MATH LESSON. Watch carefully... this is designed to teach kids about division, spatial relationships, and patterns. It also happens to be really interesting/beautiful to watch. The lesson is embedded into the piece virtually seamlessly. And that's how they drew the young & impressionable into the seedy underworld of science & engineering! How sneaky of them!

About the only comparable show on today (that I know of) is BooBah, which is trippy & artful, but has similar embedded lessons.

Not as good, though. Definitely not as good.

zeusbaby42

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> well... he was a muppet not starring on sesame street... but still!

da_q_dee

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @TedSez: add sam the eagle to that list please! c r e e p y.

da_q_dee

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @SpecialK: Hell to the yes. That is my current default ringtone.

Sally Tomato

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Ok, this is really immature, but right at the 4:59 point in the Judy Collins clips it really sounds like she's saying "don't you love farts."

bridgeburner

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> ''New" Gawker, take notes.

Hot Foot

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Mah na mah na!
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SpecialK

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> If I saw that clip as a child I would be terrified. Phillip Glass? frightening shit. I liked The Electric Company and Zoom being a 70's kid but the real reason why kids are slower is because most of them suffer from A.D.D.

SlimShadenfruede

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @theobviouschild: Too many 'onlys' there. Oops.

Lysergic Asset

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @TedSez: Sesame Street was only terrifying only if that wasn't exactly like the real neighbrhood you lived in. (I'm just sayin'.)

Lysergic Asset

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Me and my Llama
Me and my Llama
Goin to the dentist today

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Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Grace Slick sings the Jazzy Spies!

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Ed

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @CJC: Nope, Nutmeg had it right - it's from Sesame Street, and it was sung by the Pointer Sisters. Truth!
I loved Sesame Street. It became dead to me (a little) when they made Snuffy real. That was sad.


PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @nutmeg:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 had the best funk beat!
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Gayyker

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @sunny_lematina: Spirograph, too; those little plastic wheels kept me dazed and happy for hours at a time. Whereas today -- Oooh, the edges are so sharp! Those wheels are non-biodegradable!

I feel sorry not just for kids today but for the parents forced to sit through that Blues Clues/Dora/Barney crap. You don't need to be stoned to appreciate the Philip Glass geometry, but no amount of any substance could induce me to sit through a half hour of current network saturday-morning kids programming.....

beppolina1

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Where else could I learn how to take my llama to the dentist, or what it's like living in a Capital I? Every time I go to the grocery store I buy a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.

funsucker

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @VoxPopuli:
I believe that Sesame Street is far too advanced for Dubya!
He's more suited to Teletubbies.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @Nutmeg:

I believe that's from Electric Company, which might appeal more to today's little snowflakes - louder and more colorful than Sesame Street.

CJC

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> And also, in my very technical opinion: Sesame consistently maintains a level of awesomeness that Blues Clues can never touch.

Sally Tomato

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> That was awesome. Fuck Malcolm Gladwell.
Seriously, I'm having intense flashbacks here.
Also realizing why I was so obsessed with my compass and protractor as a kid. Besides the fact that I was (uh, am) a raging geek.

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Also, Malcom Gladwell is a boring, turdy intellectual. He's way better when he bends his demi-brain towards journalism. Analyzing factoids and statistics in the service of articles. Then, he's actually really readable - like his piece on American health care, and that weird but awesome one about that duo that created a music analysis computer program to determine number 1 hits. If you actually allow him to formulate new ideas, then he drops five pegs on the four peg scale.

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @SemperBufo: Too bad Sesame Street came too late for Dubya's formative years.

VoxPopuli

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> I suppose it's kind of a statement about the state of the internet, and Gawker in particular, that a really basic sort of statement, but actually quasi non-statement about art can elicit so much fawning. I guess we're so used to the low bar that anything at waist height becomes olymic high-jump material.

Yah I'm cranky today. Wannafightaboutit?

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Very, very nice. And they even had the sound of annoying ringtones in the background before cell phones existed. And the trival pursuit wheel.

VoxPopuli

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> It's not a rarity, but check this out. "When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer." That's what I learned on Sesame Street.

SemperBufo

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> 1...2...3...4....5.... 5!5!5! Let's sing a song of 5! How many is 5? 5... chocolate... sundaes! *crashes down the stairs* "Holy crap, mommy, the chef got pwned!"

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> More Gawker appreciations of the sublime, please. Even if it means bringing in Kant and Burke, DO IT.

Dickdogfood

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Speaking of Blue's Clues, the new Steve isn't half as hot as the old Steve.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> If the TV won't raise my child- who will?

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> 1-2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9-10, 11, 12!
That is all.


nutmeg

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Sesame Street taught me how to count to 20 in Spanish as a 4 year old. Luis and Maria ruled!

snocone

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> It's just so beautiful. Touching. Sob.
Now I suppose your grandfather is going to die also.

artynimue1

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @Josh: No prob. Here are some other interesting takes on the song. (Unfortunately, the inimitable Krusty the Clown version has been scoured from the Web.)

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TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @TedSez: Shit, I can't change. Just know I tried.

Joshua Stein

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @MordecaiStein1: @TedSez: Ah, both of you are right. I guess I watched too much Sesame Street and not enough Blues Clues! Anyway, changing to Send. Mordecai, you're dead to me.

Joshua Stein

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> This was fantastic, Josh.

Gawker After Hours is kind of magnificent.

karion

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Um, it's "Send in the Clowns." (According to my hippie 6th-grade chorus teacher, anyway.)

The difference between "Blue's Clues" and "Sesame Street," in my opinion, is that "Sesame Street" is terrifying. The monster who lives in a garbage can, the obsessive-compulsive vampire, the giant bird with his pet giant mutant-elephant-thing, not to mention the humans living in poverty and despair -- no wonder little tykes are too nervous hanging around that neighborhood to learn anything.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Check the plural of "psyche," Puh-Pah. xoxo

MordecaiStein1

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> This is just really lovely.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> @Josh: Also, life never makes much more sense than it does when you're three and watching a bunch of clowns dance to a sad song. You just learn to see the beauty in it.

Or when you're watching how milk is made.

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The Dewd

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Wow - I had forgotten the Philip Glass disks of color moving out of the pinwheel until now - and I feel profoundly sad for the children of this millennium. God bless the 70's.

samplesize

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> josh, you are a rare and beautiful thing.

slinkimalinki

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> I like how Jarsh is a streight but isn't afraid to get all highbrow.

The Dewd

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> well done, well done.

dogshowpony

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Fuck you for making me cry. Just get your mom to shut up about vaginas and I'm yours.

I'm off now to visit a dairy farm in my dreams, to the sweet, haunting sounds of an analog-recorded flute.

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Oh, and WRT Blues Clues: Bring back Steve. Joe sucks.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Joshua...I applaude you on this post!
No explaining...just clapping.
Thanks.



MyCubeHas3Sides

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> Josh, why so late to work this morning? Get stuck in rush hour traffic?

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Why Kids Are So Dumb Today]]> What time is Nick Douglas back on duty?

ElijahPollack

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