Hack Barry Sonnenfeld is an idiot in more ways than one
The Internet has Barry Sonnenfeld freaked out. “I fear the Internet for so many reasons,” the director of the “Men in Black” movies said Tuesday during a speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Show here.
“The medium is the message, and the medium has invaded our home and taken over our minds. . . . The really scary part is how hypnotic it is. The ‘Net is so pervasive that kids are on it all day.”
Sonnenfeld fears that children today will grow up with “no concept of the right to privacy and in fact not understand the need for it. Because the Facebook generation is not concerned with what people know about them . . . they will have no problem with additional governmental supervision, spying and intervention. They will be thrilled that the Internet will be able to follow their every move.
“I suspect,” he said, “we are probably looking at the last generation of Americans that exist in a democracy. Totalitarianism is not far in our future, and the next generation will go down that road happily.”
Via AP
Comments
By jara on October 26th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I agree, Barry! My students are A-OK with the government knowing what books they check out and all about their lives on Facebook and MySpace.
Kids don’t care — they don’t even notice the encroachment of government on their lives. Happy-Go-Lucky — right into the claws of totalitarianism!