Touch Football and Television
April 25, 2007 at 13:42:02
by Ernest Partridge
I belong to the last generation to experience childhood without television. And I have often wondered what was lost when the children of that generation deserted the playgrounds and moved inside to watch the tube.
It is widely reported that many children today spend more time watching television than they spend in a classroom. Thus as a child sits alone, hours on end in his own private world, he fails to learn the fundamental rules of social interaction – the necessity of compromise, accommodation, and empathy, which is to say, the ability to see the world (oneself included) from another’s perspective. Instead, his world is the world.
…Indoor activities have also changed dramatically with the advent of television. Card games and board games, like playground games, have given way to The Tube. And pity it is, for such activities develop a capacity for empathy – the ability to view the world from the perspective of another person.
Military strategists since (and doubtlessly before) Sun Tzu, twenty-six centuries ago, have insisted that the first rule of military engagement is to know the mind of one’s opponent. Legend has it that the game of chess was invented as a device to train military officers to do just that: think like the other guy. Empathy — “getting into the head” of one’s opponent — is also, paradoxically, essential to diplomacy and peacemaking.
Source: OpEdNews.com
Yet another “My generation was better, you youngsters are worthless” propaganda piece.
With each generation more stupid than the last (according to whichever generation happens to be babbling about it) it is a wonder we have not gone back to the caves yet.
>>Yet another “My generation was better, you youngsters are worthless” propaganda piece.>>
Yet another “I don’t like what you say, but don’t have the sense or energy to refute it” post.
“Yet another “My generation was better, you youngsters are worthless” propaganda piece.
With each generation more stupid than the last (according to whichever generation happens to be babbling about it) it is a wonder we have not gone back to the caves yet.”
You seem to have misunderstood the whole thing. The piece was about social skills, not intelligence.
You also seem to have unwittingly provided supporting evidence that the current generation may be lacking in these. Way to go, Ace.
chess was invented to do some ass kicking. to break your opponents confidence. to demoralize him and make him writhe in his seat as you continue your assault. to absolutly crush his will to ever play the game. a street fight where everything goes and if you dont bring your best game just leave youll get hurt.
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chess was invented to do some ass kicking. to break your opponents confidence.
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That’s silly. In the Dark Ages, who had any confidence?
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chess was invented to do some ass kicking. to break your opponents confidence.
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You wouldn’t have much confidence in the first place if all it takes to break it is to lose a game of chess.
Also in relation to the article while chess is more socially interactive than television, albeit slightly so when played on-line, there are still a large number of social inepts playing chess, hell i might even be one of them.
It is a well known fact today, that kids are drawn to television and video games, rather than playing boring board game.
Is this bad ?
I dont think so. As long as you can control how much your kid spend his/her time on the computer or tv, everything will be fine.
Too much time spend on the boardgame such as chess can be worthless too, unless you are very excellent at that.
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