Katie Wise

Thesis statement- Quotes- "The problem is that instead of using the Web to learn about the wide world, young people instead mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting lingua franca of being cool in school. " - The Dumbest Generation Most Americans have everything they could possibly want, and they still don't think it's nearly enough.

Her daughter was sitting there for her first talk. Now, she is texting her saying good luck. Using the chat rooms for better understanding of what they should work on. She says technology is taking us places we don't want to go. She says parent's do not give them attention while they are on their phones. Phones keep us from grief. She says phones set us up from trouble. Being alone is not always a bad thing. We want control of our attention. Also, technology gives us a wide variety of attention. We all love attention and how people perceive us. She is agreeing with the other blogs we have read because she thinks that phones are taking us out of the real world where as, I think they are bringing us closer together.

Most Americans have everything they could possibly want, and they still don't think it's nearly enough. Lasn's argument in "Ecology of the Mind' is that we as humans have started being in touch with the real world and really have been involved with the social media world. Lasn's trying to show how American's have become dependent on phones and getting basically everything they could ever want. Eat the instant you're hungry and, as the Buddhist master put it, "You will never find out what your hunger is for." Plenitude feeds the malaise as it fills the stomach. Here in this quote the Author is saying that most people do not know what hunger really is but really most people in America do