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Its not even just about individual actor child predators. Its a parents responsibility to protect their child from harm - that used to just mean making sure the
by zanny 8y ago
Its not even just about individual actor child predators. Its a parents responsibility to protect their child from harm - that used to just mean making sure they don't get hit by a car or burn their hand on the stove, but nowadays it means shielding them from hostile actors looking to exploit them psychologically and modern society is completely inundated in such actors. Disney, Netflix, Google, etc are all in the business of addicting your kids as a profit center. Their minds are sponges, and its so critical parents realize what you let soak in will hugely influence the person they become. I don't want to fathom how mentally damaged the kids growing up on skinner box mobile games, pregnant Elsa & Spiderman, manipulative social media, and the fruits of billion dollar ad budgets by some of the smartest men alive coming out of Disney will be. It will probably be on similar scale to how many children pre-1980 grew up with regular beatings and resource deprivation by parents leaving them bitter addled adults with endless mental illness.
- Mirioron 8y agoThey aren't going to be any more damaged than the previous generations. Why? Because none of this is new. This kind of manipulation happened and happens all the time in all spheres of life. How do you think religion spread?
- zanny 8y agoThe accessibility and availability of screens to glue childrens faces to is totally novel and modern. There used to only be "saturday morning cartoons" because the singular TV in the house was dedicated to content the entire family of all ages could watch the rest of the day. Even at the height of wanton kids "advertising" tv (shows in the 80s like TMNT / He-man / Transformers that were just 30 minute ads for toys) the design of the product was never to totally subsume the child at all hours in the product. We are seeing substantially more children coming of age now without any social skills or ability to interact with people because they spent all their time glued to screens. They are highly addictive, conditioned to consume, and emotionally stunted. Zombies by any other name, programmed by smart minds through operant conditioning to crave gambling dopamine releases from insanity like loot boxes.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago> We are seeing substantially more children coming of age now without any social skills or ability to interact I would even say that the stubborn refusal to even see a problem here, and the shallow, abstract and disinterested ways in which that is argued, is evidence of pretty hefty damage already inflicted on previous generations.