The Dumbest Generation

I finally finished reading "The Dumbest Generation." I am guilty of everything the author mentions. I spend my time keeping up to date on my social circle. I keep a blog and look forward to audience participation. I rarely watch local or national news. I don't read enough for pleasure or to learn more knowledge about the past. I have mentors and audiences that I don't pay direct attention to. I would be on my phone constantly, if I sent text messages or was more interesting. I am on the phone constantly with my dad and grandpa though. I use the computer as a tool to learn, but learn to much of what would be worthless knowledge. After reading this book, I do think we are in trouble as a nation. I don't know if the under 30 crowd is motivated enough to get out of their social circle and be a civic minded person that our government needs.

I also have got a couple of long days ahead of me. The weather has finally turned enough that our fields are dry enough and we can get in several hours of combining a day. The problem we are going to run into is that the local elevator is going to run out of room and we might want to do more work. Then we are going to have to put as much as we can in our own storage for a while. I can expect some more late nights here for another week or so.