There have been, and always will be people that love puzzles because it challenges them, forces them to think. People read poetry now and it requires more thought than most pamphlets because they enjoy the exercise. There have always been and always will be the lazy in mind and body and there always will be. I don't see a faster internet connection changing this either way. All of this has happened before and it will all happen again. When radio was introduced, jazz, rock and roll, television etc; they were all supposed to be the unravelling of the public attention span, turning us all in to thoughtless zombies. It didn't happen and it's not going to happen. The lazy will stay lazy and the motivated will continue to be so.
The lazy will stay lazy and the motivated will continue to be so
Interesting point. I'm curious though if the number of lazy folk is increasing.
lazy is a subjective term. Some people would call a person that house sits and eats other peoples left-overs "lazy," other people would call that person enlightened. You tell me, is the number increasing?
While I do have a marginal view here at my school, there seem to be less and less proactive students as the more proactive ones have graduated.