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Older media is far less socially degenerative to consume. Even modern media standards are higher than much of what I have personally seen children consume on Yo

Older media is far less socially degenerative to consume. Even modern media standards are higher than much of what I have personally seen children consume on YouTube kids. The 3 TV channels and two newspapers never ran programming that features Spiderman and Elsa having diarrhea after sexually suggestive themes.

comboy 5y ago
Really? Spiderman and Elsa having diarrhea is that much worse than presenting family model with woman being a washing machine and kids getting beaten by their dad? Nutella is a healthy breakfast and all cool kids smoke cigarettes. Shut up and do your job. As far as I remember standards were not higher. They were different. Plus really, the cartoons I remember were full of stuff like find a sleeping pills in parents cabinet, give somebody as a joke, put a pin on a chair so somebody sits on it etc. Racism everywhere. Stuff that is even hard to find nowadays because they had to scrub it. Sexually suggestive themes, like have you watched lion king? Or anything really... it seemed to be way more explicit. We luckily tend to remember past as better than it was. There's also nostalgia element and there's cultural difference. Just like there are different cultures around the globe and most think that other ones are gross, the same happens in the time dimension. edit: to be clear, things could be better, we should point out what's wrong and try to fix it, but with some more decent optimization function than "proximity to good the old days"
- cj 5y ago
  The fundamental difference is that today you can hypertarget content at individuals, and successfully modify specific behaviors and beliefs at scale. This was not possible to do at scale 10+ years ago.
  - comboy 5y ago
    I agree with that difference but I'm not sure it's fundamental. To me more fundamental is access to information that anybody has above certain age. Yes you still need to know how to interpret it, that's one of the most valuable skills nowadays, but in the past you had just no way of fact checking and doing more research on what has been given to you apart from spending hours in library which would not be very productive unless you were interested in some relatively popular chunk of history. You get served stuff targeted at you but it's just information, and you have a way to put it in a bigger context. It was not possible before. The fact that you learn about unknown unknowns through a magic giving content box is also amazing. It is not perfect and have its issues, and I would love for everybody to just garden their homepages which I could visit like it's .. oh shit well 30 years ago, but I'm not sure I want to spend time on gardening mine when I can learn so much instead.
- iratewizard 5y ago

comboy 5y ago

Really? Spiderman and Elsa having diarrhea is that much worse than presenting family model with woman being a washing machine and kids getting beaten by their dad? Nutella is a healthy breakfast and all cool kids smoke cigarettes. Shut up and do your job. As far as I remember standards were not higher. They were different. Plus really, the cartoons I remember were full of stuff like find a sleeping pills in parents cabinet, give somebody as a joke, put a pin on a chair so somebody sits on it etc. Racism everywhere. Stuff that is even hard to find nowadays because they had to scrub it. Sexually suggestive themes, like have you watched lion king? Or anything really... it seemed to be way more explicit. We luckily tend to remember past as better than it was. There's also nostalgia element and there's cultural difference. Just like there are different cultures around the globe and most think that other ones are gross, the same happens in the time dimension. edit: to be clear, things could be better, we should point out what's wrong and try to fix it, but with some more decent optimization function than "proximity to good the old days"

cj 5y ago
The fundamental difference is that today you can hypertarget content at individuals, and successfully modify specific behaviors and beliefs at scale. This was not possible to do at scale 10+ years ago.
- comboy 5y ago
  I agree with that difference but I'm not sure it's fundamental. To me more fundamental is access to information that anybody has above certain age. Yes you still need to know how to interpret it, that's one of the most valuable skills nowadays, but in the past you had just no way of fact checking and doing more research on what has been given to you apart from spending hours in library which would not be very productive unless you were interested in some relatively popular chunk of history. You get served stuff targeted at you but it's just information, and you have a way to put it in a bigger context. It was not possible before. The fact that you learn about unknown unknowns through a magic giving content box is also amazing. It is not perfect and have its issues, and I would love for everybody to just garden their homepages which I could visit like it's .. oh shit well 30 years ago, but I'm not sure I want to spend time on gardening mine when I can learn so much instead.
iratewizard 5y ago