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Today's society is a very "powerful anti-intellectual society". As Northrop Frye has stated in the article "Don't you think it's time to start thinking?" I also agree that today's society is very anti-intellectual. Teenagers are exposed to video games, drugs, violence, slang, and many other things that do not want to think. These things make teenagers choose the wrong path.
From the age of ten we are given video games as birthday presents, or even by our parents for no apparent reason. I believe this maybe one of the reasons why society is a powerful anti-intellectual society. They kill our thinking power and we stop thinking and we start to make the wrong decisions in life. Instead of going to class students start to say "who needs that course?" and start to skip. If video games were not present maybe it the problem would be that much easier to solve.
Some students get involved in drugs as soon as they enter grade nine and some, even before that. It is a proven fact that drugs......

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