{"id":60972,"date":"2026-05-11T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60972"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:01:03","slug":"alan-tuffery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60972","title":{"rendered":"Are we losing our thinking skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter, <strong><em>Donie Tarrant<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Regular Contributor<strong><em>, Alan <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Tuffery<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0ask whether we are in an <em>\u2018Age of Unreason\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are we losing our thinking skills?<\/em>\u00a0Is it the result of spending more time on screens? <em>Are we being deliberately \u2018dumbed down\u2019?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9845\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9845','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=60972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 25:29 &#8212; 35.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter, Donie Tarrant\u00a0and Regular Contributor, Alan Tuffery\u00a0ask whether we are in an \u2018Age of Unreason\u2019. Are we losing our thinking skills?\u00a0Is it the result of spending more time on screens? Are we being deliberately \u2018dumbed down\u2019?<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9846\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9846','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=60972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"NEARFM_20260511_NST_003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 25:29 &#8212; 35.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":33596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5611],"tags":[18501,4419],"class_list":["post-60972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today-2","tag-alan-tuffery","tag-donie-tarrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61065,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972\/revisions\/61065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}