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A typical sentence starts out something along the lines of "It seems that......" and then makes a convenient point. The author of the article then swiftly transfers the convenient point to another area and in the transfer the rather dubious original statement based on the proof of "It seems that....." takes on the appearance of a proven fact.
So it seems that we are all succumbing to the disease of short attention spans. Is there anything other than anecdotal evidence to support this theory? Is this article anything other than the wistful theorizing of a G.O.M (grumpy old man)?
The really delightful thing about arguments employing broad generalizations as proof is that it is so easy to find an exception and so demolish the entire argument. So it is with this article. All that then remains is that this person is not happy and he has an odd excuse for his state of mind, namely the intellectual shortcomings of others.
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