Second Blog: CBS Thought

After watching the video clip I agree with him that it is important to have a love of story telling, clear vivid language, and a respect for history. Without story telling our lives would be boring. I think the biggest thing people need to realize that news paper is important because what happens if one day our computers crash or the websites we want to be on all day go down. Then, do we know how to live outside the computer. Do we still know how to hand write papers and use creative language to write a paper or to talk to people. I think it is important for people to really think about the fact that people need to learn more than spend time sitting on the computer. I say this because if we don't learn history as a nation then we will never be able to move forward. If we don't learn from our mistakes history will repeat itself. It isn't like most people are on the internet reading the newspaper and articles of history. They are on the computer gossiping about what Tim and Tom did last weekend and getting all upset over people they don't even know. I think we would be a lot more productive as a society as a whole if we didn't have things like MySpace and Facebook. As a person that loves to write poetry it is hard for me to see how our language is being dumbed down to letters that are supposed to mean whole words. People don't even care about grammar anymore or how to even spell words. I think we are ruining the intelligence of people by subjecting them to these wonderful writing techniques. I think story telling comes into play with the fact that a lot of people aren't even meeting in person anymore and are holding on-line relationships instead of getting out and meeting people and spending time with them. It is something that people need to think about for their future and the future of others.