Homework #1 Chapter 1 Blog Response

From the 1^st page of the chapter to the last, Badke came out the gate swinging. Badke’s style of writing is very aggressive and he doesn’t waste anytime getting his point across. Badke approached his topic head on and spoke about how societies and their traditions have escalated throughout time. As Badke progresses in his teaching he briefly shows how information and culture was passed down from generation to generation. Although he agrees passing culture generation to generation is a good thing, he also takes one step ahead and talks about the disadvantages. Although they were passing the information down, it was verbally so it was becoming more inaccurate every generation. This inaccuracy all came to a halt with the invention of the printing press because it allowed for multiple copies of documents so no one had to pass it down because it was written all around. Then came the Internet, which was an advancement that was also a major setback because of people putting up information that was false.