Ron Jeremy: The Internet Makes People Stupid

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So funny, everyone knocking Ron Jeremy when they don't have any qualifications to their name...

When he finally quits porn he could walk into just about any educational establishment and get a job as a teacher in 5 minutes.
 
The Internet Makes People Stupid is the second Postulate of the Internet (the first is that Porn content will always at least equal non-porn content). I have been saying this for 10 years.
 
The internet don't make people stupid. That's a character trait inherited from their parents and enhanced by the activists who encourage them to complain about the fairness of life etc.. The internet is a tool to help people share information more effectively. To say the internet makes people stupid is the same as saying cars make people get into car accidents. We need to teach our kids how to be responsible people, instead of finding the right party on which to confer blame for our own inability to use our brains effectively.
 
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]So funny, everyone knocking Ron Jeremy when they don't have any qualifications to their name...When he finally quits porn he could walk into just about any educational establishment and get a job as a teacher in 5 minutes.[/citation]

You make it sound as though qualifications are relevant in the real world.

-Thomas Edison had three months of schooling.
-Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.
-Abraham Lincoln had about 18 months of schooling.
-Ron Jeremy has acquired far more fame and money being a porn star than a teacher.

I can keep going...

In the real world, A-grade students work for C-grade students. Go and ask any millionaire (over half of them in the world never finished high school as well).
 
[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]You make it sound as though qualifications are relevant in the real world.-Thomas Edison had three months of schooling. -Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.-Abraham Lincoln had about 18 months of schooling.-Ron Jeremy has acquired far more fame and money being a porn star than a teacher.I can keep going...In the real world, A-grade students work for C-grade students. Go and ask any millionaire (over half of them in the world never finished high school as well).[/citation]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but at the end of the day he was a school teacher until someone said he could earn as much money in a week doing porn as he does in a year just because he has a big cock.
This guy was educated and qualified as a teacher BEFORE his porn career.
I am sure that if any educated young man was offered 100 times the cash to screw beautiful blondes it wouldn't take much convincing.
 
or we justuse differnt methods to learn.Ax the tech and knowladge evolve we are going to make more lazy ways to learn.We just got to make sure that people are learning correctly is all.Change for the times.Sound to me he just doesnt lie change. I sitll understand his point and agree to a certan degree but its not as simple as just THAT.
 
internet porn is so popular because it allows amateurs and voyeurs to "express themselves", and masturbators everywhere prefer watching that than proffesional pornstars. i know there's alot of free porn on the internet, and that probably hurts the industry, but make no mistake internet porn brings in big dollars. the medium for porn has changed, that doesn't mean the industry has collapsed, far from it. its just theres no need for pornstars, when the girl next door does it for free. people will still pay to see it though.
 
The reason why he is so bitter is because he is a porn content producer and the real money is in distribution. Therefore the internet being the number one distributor of cheaply produced moving images, most of which have an entertainment value of nothing and a timed value equal to a minute twenty (the average time it takes for an 18 year old to reach it). Sure I'd be mad also. But one thing I know for sure, you can always trust a man with a harry back who has shtupped more hot women than Mr. Heffner. The truly "classic" pornographer.
 
Considering the America recently allowed President G.W. Bush to serve two terms I'd say we're already there. It is true that there is some detrimental effect to being overly reliant on the internet so defining just what that point is will be an important challenge for future educators.
 
[citation][nom]megamanx00[/nom]Considering the America recently allowed President G.W. Bush to serve two terms I'd say we're already there. It is true that there is some detrimental effect to being overly reliant on the internet so defining just what that point is will be an important challenge for future educators.[/citation]
Hmm, Green Day didn't write American Idiot for no reason...
 
“"People can download stuff for free these days, so why the heck are they going to buy it?” Taken alone, this comment sounds like a quote from the Napster litigation of early 2000. I think history has shown that anyone will choose free over having to pay for “it”; especially when it comes to something like pornography, which is treated like contraband.

I do agree with Mr. Jeremy’s opinion that the internet is an ideal platform for identity theft. I worked at and insurance company for a few years and in that time they developed an entire product line around ID theft. In nearly every case I encountered, the internet was the avenue of information exposure (usually combined with a bad series of choices on the part of the insured.)

As far as the article title is concerned, I don’t think video games make people stupid—at least no more radio did in the first half of the 20th century, nor television did in the last half century. It is a device WE choose to turn on and WE choose to turn off—save the developing debate over video game addiction.

I do agree with Adlai Stevenson whose thoughts in the 1960s (before my time) still hold true today, “Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are the preconditions of educational recovery in America today; and, I believe, they have always been the preconditions of happiness and sanity for the human race.”
 
Like others are saying, knowledge is not intelligence. I think the internet (and technology in general) is changing what we choose to retain in our heads. For example, there's little reason to remember the phone numbers of all your friends and family members. You just put it in your cell phone or any other portable device. The same goes with a lot of other data. Why memorize useless stuff that can be easily looked up when you can focus on retaining more important things ? Granted, we need to draw the line somewhere. An adult should be able to find the US on a world map without having to look it up on the internet.
 
>> It's good because you can research any topic," Jeremy explains. "In my day, we went to the encyclopedia for that. Nowadays, though, kids can't memorise anything. No dates, no times tables, no history. If there is anything you need to know, you just press a few buttons. We could be giving rise to a generation of idiots.

This is a complete logic fail. You don't need to memorize anything with the internet, that is the point. You need to manage information. Now we can concentrate on formulating proper opinions rather than going to single sources of information which are factually incorrect, biased or simply unavailable.

If kids are stupid, it's because the generation in control of the schools are stupid. (yes baby boomers are completely stupid and should get the hell out of the way)
 
Being in the porn business makes people stupid.

I learn a lot of stuff from reading wikipedia. There's only so much they teach in school. I guess if one's reading comprehension is impared then u can say it has a negative effect though.
 
I like how he think's he's above most individuals because he has a Masters and a couple BA's. No doubt, a good accomplishment, but that doesn't exactly make you better than everyone else. A lot of successful people never went to college, it's really in the individual themselves. Also, just like anything else it's a double edged sword e.g. online college classes vs pr0n
 
[citation][nom]user-one[/nom]ron jeremy is the biggest dick eater on the planet. with that out of the way, the internet doesnt make people stupid. its just makes the stupid people more apparent.[/citation]

That's the way I've always seen it. There were always stupid people, but now they can be heard, stupid or not. And unfortunately, people listen.
 
It's not like a new thing to be blamed on the internet.. if you want to see the decline, just look at an 8th grade graduation exam from the 19th century. Some of the stuff on those isn't covered until college now, but kids know a lot more about social sciences than they did then, whatever that's worth.


Also, getting your banking information phished twice isn't a sign that the world's stupid, but it is a sign of stupidity.
 
He made his money back in the 70's & 80's before the internet. I find it to be very educational among the 97% of porn that's out there. It's also a 24/7/365 library that's always open.
 
Some views/opinions are arguable but imo this one is not. The idea that the internet is a detriment to current and future intelligence in the human race is bogus. Why do I even bother to comment??? Because I can't help it.
 
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