AB All age group tag #'s up........incl. the hipster crowd?

Dorian Gray said:
Nope. You have to make a deer hide man purse and flaunt it to the latte crowd as you prance through your local starbucks thinking that not only are you morally superior to regular folk, you're even better than the metrosexuals sitting around you who's acceptance you crave more than you're 7$ low-fat-skim-mocha-frappe-grande. Like the guy in the article. Then you can officially be a hipster. :cool:
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Well, I am certainly better than those Starbucks latté-people. I wonder, am I half way there or half way cured?
 
jethunter said:
LOL, Show me where I said that? That's just silly.

I said smart devices are making dumber people, and learning from a family member is better than learning on youtube. I made those comments based on the simple fact that the article which is the basis of this thread is about people who don't know how to hunt or field dress.

Based on that, could you please explain how you could possibly conclude I had implied that people who don't have a mentor shouldn't hunt?? :)
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I concluded that because that's the way a lot of people learn to hunt and you said smart devices are making people dumb yet some people obviously learn very well from them. Perhaps it's just dumb people using smart devices that appear dumb and intelligent ones appear intelligent. Sure a mentor or Dad is best but if such an opportunity doesn't exist, utilizing the information age certainly doesn't make one dumb does it? Sound fairly smart to me. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a Dad or family member that hunts...something to bear in mind if you were lucky enough to. I seemed to fair okay learning from books and magazines...the resources on the web today would have been a dream to me.
 
sheephunter said:
I concluded that because that's the way a lot of people learn to hunt and you said smart devices are making people dumb yet some people obviously learn very well from them. Perhaps it's just dumb people using smart devices that appear dumb and intelligent ones appear intelligent. Sure a mentor or Dad is best but if such an opportunity doesn't exist, utilizing the information age certainly doesn't make one dumb does it? Sound fairly smart to me. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a Dad or family member that hunts...something to bear in mind if you were lucky enough to. I seemed to fair okay learning from books and magazines...the resources on the web today would have been a dream to me.
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Wow. you really missed the point.

I'll stick to my theory that smart devices aren't making smarter people. Sure, we have access to more information than we ever did. And now we have all these incredibly smart people driving and texting. Walking into streetlamps because they are staring at their iphone instead of watching where they are going. Kids that have to learn how to do everything on youtube because mom and dad spend every spare minute they have with their faces glued to phones. Half of twenty year olds can't change a flat tire without calling a service. Tell me again how smart we are now. :)
 
I learnt how to field dress and process animals from a DVD series. If it weren't for that resource then there would probably be a lot of standing around looking at a dead deer before walking away from it and giving up hunting like I'm sure some people have done.
 
Grumpy old men...arrgh!
I tell my friends and family to let me know if I start with the "Kids these days" crap.
You are only old once you begin to become inflexible about new ideas.
Things change all the time; the fact that one can learn deer butchering or processing on youtube is awesome.
I can remember as a youth some of the older men talking out of their *ss. Still see that on an infrequent basis...
There are some rude, silly kids around, sure. But they are nicely balanced out by decent, polite kids.
As often as one hears an old timer pontificating about their wisdom...is about as often as one hears the same age person saying " I didn't know" after being bilked of their life savings by a Nigerian scam artist.
Learn what you can, by what method you can, then get out and do something. Don't sit and grouse to an online forum.
LOL, I'm stuck at work in front of this computer, 'cause no way would I be on it at home. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
By all means, stay safe
 
jethunter said:
Wow. you really missed the point.

I'll stick to my theory that smart devices aren't making smarter people. Sure, we have access to more information than we ever did. And now we have all these incredibly smart people driving and texting. Walking into streetlamps because they are staring at their iphone instead of watching where they are going. Kids that have to learn how to do everything on youtube because mom and dad spend every spare minute they have with their faces glued to phones. Half of twenty year olds can't change a flat tire without calling a service. Tell me again how smart we are now. :)
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You missed out on yelling at some kids to get off your lawn!;)
 
jethunter said:
Wow. you really missed the point.

I'll stick to my theory that smart devices aren't making smarter people. Sure, we have access to more information than we ever did. And now we have all these incredibly smart people driving and texting. Walking into streetlamps because they are staring at their iphone instead of watching where they are going. Kids that have to learn how to do everything on youtube because mom and dad spend every spare minute they have with their faces glued to phones. Half of twenty year olds can't change a flat tire without calling a service. Tell me again how smart we are now. :)
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I hear what you're saying and agree to an extent. Watching two people on a date huddled over their iPhones and not actually having anything to do with each other (I actually cold-cocked the dude in the scenario when I went to the washroom - he was standing inside the door texting when I went in...KAPOW!) makes me shake my head. That said, watching a video on Youtube is no different than picking up a book to learn something. In fact they can be quite helpful to people that are visual learners and have difficulty making sense of written directions. The device itself isn't making people any smarter, perhaps increasing people's reliance on technology, but we're all reliant on technology whether we want to admit it or not and to protest the influence of technology on our lives is to deny the obvious. The real challenge is to balance the influence of technology on our lives to ensure that we don't devolve into tech-zombies.

Given how hard it can be for young people to find mentors of any sort (personal, professional or recreational) should we deny them the opportunity to participate or should we embrace their desire to learn and join our ranks? Seems like a no-brainer to me.
 
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