Has the internet made us smarter?

[Peuri]

I think it will end, actually. Of course it will take nuclear war to end it, but it will end.
Maybe smaller and closed national webs will replace it - with other kinds of garbage.

You think there will be a nuclear war? You must be joking.

 

[Kyriakos]

You think there will be a nuclear war? You must be joking.

The future doesn't reach only up to tomorrow.

 

[bhavv]

The internet has made me smarter than doctors given that they were only just able to correctly diagnose my joint / digestive symptoms after I found out about two near identical conditions earlier this year of which I have 100% of the symptoms and diagnostics, then went to a new GP last week and performed those diagnostics, told her it was either of the two conditions, and the GP agreed and made a rheumatology appointment to narrow it down to one.

This GP and none before would have even recognised this if I hadnt looked it up and told them about it first, and they often tell me not to believe things I read on the internet.

Honestly I don't even know why these are two separate conditions:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/joint-hypermobility-syndrome/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/

The first is identical to the hypermobile variant of the second, both of which I have the full symptom list and double jointed fingers, and knees that bend backwards (and one knee and both wrists count among my already dislocated parts).

 

[Hygro]

Yes but the cost of the internet is sitting still which has deleterious effects on our brain making us dumber.

 

[Narz]

Yes but the cost of the internet is sitting still which has deleterious effects on our brain making us dumber.

I'm at a standing desk rn.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

The funny thing is I've read entire books with less intellectual meat than I've seen in one image macro.

I don't think anyone's arguing that there aren't a lot of crap books out there.

Why though? Memes are essentially modern art

I'm impressed. You just made my brain start down the path of defending the virtues of modern art, something I never thought it would do

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I'm at a standing desk rn.

I know, people are looking at you weird. Don't turn around though.

 

[Lexicus]

I don't think anyone's arguing that there aren't a lot of crap books out there.

No, but what you do appear to be arguing is that image macros posted on the internet are somehow incapable of being worthwhile.

I'm impressed. You just made my brain start down the path of defending the virtues of modern art, something I never thought it would do

As usual you are in excellent philosophical company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

 

[Zkribbler]

modern art

modern art is an oxymoron.
[actually I like about 1% of it.]

 

[Kyriakos]

modern art is an oxymoron.
[actually I like about 1% of it.]

Don't you mean "a paradox"?
An oxymoron is something which seems false, but is actually true.

 

[Peter Harper]

The Internet makes us more informative, more update. But I don't think it makes ut smarter. Without the Internet, we will have time to make a lot more creative things.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

can you guys please just say "contemporary art" so you don't sound like complete idiots? thanks

in case I still haven't gotten through to everyone:

this is an example of modern art (roughly 1860s to 1960s)

this is an example of contemporary art (the term is loosely used for most art created after ww2)

it's a period blood painting of el donaldo

modernism essentially ended with the post ww2 society. abstract expressionism, minimalist art, pop art, performance art, happenings, room installations, fluxus and so forth became popular. this is a known example of abstract expressionism:

sometimes contemporary art is mistakeningly called postmodern art, however that is not necessarily true. there are many philosophies of contemporary art, like for example deconstructivist art.

this is the guggenheim museum in bilbao, a known example of deconstructivist art.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Give it time and contemporary art becomes modern art.

The Internet makes us more informative, more update. But I don't think it makes ut smarter. Without the Internet, we will have time to make a lot more creative things.

Exactly. Since I have internet I feel less focused. Dont know if it is because I am getting older though.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Give it time and contemporary art becomes modern art.

modern art is done. baroque doesn't suddenly become romanticism, jazz doesn't suddenly become classical, just because time passes and new styles are created. the only reason why genres even make sense in the first place is because they feature specific attributes. genres are descriptive. if anything could just become "modern art" due to time passing then therefore the label "modern art" is utterly meaningless.

as I tried to explain, contemporary art itself is a diverse umbrella term that features many different styles. in 50 years the guggenheim museum will not be contemporary art anymore, it will simply be called deconstructivism.

 

[Lexicus]

An oxymoron is something which seems false, but is actually true.

No, an oxymoron is a(n apparent) contradiction in terms.

modern art is done.

For the record, I was referring to modern art as the thing the Nazis had beef with. So I was using the term accurately.

 

[Kyriakos]

No, an oxymoron is a(n apparent) contradiction in terms.

So you is saying that i was wrong to claim the house is white, because it is made of walls.

At any rate, in greek, there is the periphrasis "schema oxymoron" which always alludes to the contradiction in terms, and the more general "oxymoron" which is often used as a synecdoche, ie it can refer more freely to claims that seem false (due to their nature) but actually are true.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

For the record, I was referring to modern art as the thing the Nazis had beef with. So I was using the term accurately.

Yes, you were actually the only person itt using the term correctly. "Degenerate Art" was mostly '10s and '20s German expressionism, political art and pretty much anything done by a jew, so mostly modernist art.

 

[Lexicus]

At any rate, in greek, there is the periphrasis "schema oxymoron" which always alludes to the contradiction in terms, and the more general "oxymoron" which is often used as a synecdoche, ie it can refer more freely to claims that seem false (due to their nature) but actually are true.

Yeah, I think we're just saying the same thing with different words.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

No, but what you do appear to be arguing is that image macros posted on the internet are somehow incapable of being worthwhile.

Yes. I didn't think that was ambiguous.

 

[Lexicus]

Yes. I didn't think that was ambiguous.

Do you even get this meme?