The Dumbest Generation?!

Hodges starts off his piece by squeezing lemon juice on America's most recent and sensitive cut. Hodges explains how the country now has become so lazy that even political campaigns have shifted their tactics to accommodate this decrease in literacy. He explains his reasoning and gives examples as recent as the past presidential campaign in which key terms where what defined the person and what they believed in. Hodges says that companies and candidates have, "catered to a nation that now lives in a permanent state of amnesia," (1) this "image-based society" (2). Hodges defines America as illiterate because "It cannot differentiate between lies and truth" (1).
The part of Hodges' article that confused me the most was that of how the transformation has affected Christians and in general the consumer culture. As both of these subjects seem seperate to me, Hodges says that because the use of television and images that truth and fact are now not an option and the people who are part of this deception are using force to get their message out. I am not sure where he got that or is going with this idea but nevertheless, it is included in his piece.
Hodges and Carr both highlight the key to what technology is doing to people in general all around the world. They both indicate how now with the advances in technology people are in need of constant stimulus. The fact that people cannot sit down and think, as as Carr sees in 2001: A Space Odessy, and Hodges sees as an illiterate is a red flag that we are slowly degrading ourselves abd that sooner than later we will not be able to comprehend the smallest things as Hodges noted about parents and their children. He notes that the little things are starting to be difficult for people such as filling out forms about themselves or getting scammed by false deals and unrealistic benefits.