Technology and the "Fall of Communication"

Now, I am not going to go into a big rant about how Communication has changed over the years from Abraham to now where we have instant communication-texting, blogging (Yes, call me a hypocrite), and tweeting (not Tweety Bird), etc. With that said in a ways communication can enhance people's lives-making them easier and more efficient, but sometimes doing it the old fashioned way is the easiest and most efficient-like making a phone call, etc. Too make a long point short, as great as this new-wave of communication and technology is, it has also led to the lack of or downfall of simple speech, grammar, and communication of people. This article "Defining Discourse Down" points out the problem of communication and how he defines it as "Discourse" as we know what communication is today.

"When has any debate in the last 150 years evoked memories of Lincoln-Douglas? And how is Twitter versus America’s most remarkable letter-writing first family a fair fight?...It’s not that we are all suddenly morons. This is not going to be some elitist rant on “if only everyone could be smart like me and my friends.” Likewise, the problem is not the banality of the world around us. There is plenty to discuss, dissect, and disagree on. The problem is not even that television has robbed us of the ability to communicate in complete sentences (though it certainly hasn’t helped). The problem with our discourse—are you ready for this brilliant insight?—is that some people are jerks and some people are too nice...."

This is a very interesting read and makes some good points.

Nice to see the Cardinals actually get a lead and win the game last night. Pineioro hopefully showed the rest of the pitching staff, that when you don't walk batter and serve up meatballs, good things happen to pitchers-a complete game 9 IP, NO WALKS, 5 K's, and 17 groundball outs-a 4 pitch 4th inning, and retired the last 14 batters. Hopefully with Carpenter coming back tonight we can get the ship back sailing in the right direction-and with Ankiel coming back as well. Go get em Redbirds!