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I think these "chattering classes" overestimate their influence on how young people grow up. Their position papers and articles in the Atlantic are nothing comp
by taylorius 5y ago
I think these "chattering classes" overestimate their influence on how young people grow up. Their position papers and articles in the Atlantic are nothing compared to the tidal wave of media from Youtube, Tiktok, Hollywood etc. And those media engines prize the quick dopamine hit above all else - criminals, gangsters, hustlers - anything but a hard working family man.
- DebtDeflation 5y agoSocial media also encourages people to present a highly exaggerated and curated, if not outright fabricated, view of their lives to the world. Others in their networks then compare this to their actual lives and feel inadequate.
- taylorius 4y agoI wonder if people's fabricated online lives actually become real to them. The brain is capable of all manner of reality distortions. Perhaps such instagram fakery becomes a sort of virtual reality for these people.