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This feels so much like 80s parents lamenting how comic books are ruining kids minds.

xrd 3y ago
Do you have kids? I've got kids, and addiction to tech is a real thing. Being a parent is so so hard, and then you add this thing that is designed to trigger every impulse. Every parent I know says "I'm so glad I didn't have to raise my kids with smart phones." And, I love comic books, and this is different.
- doubled112 3y ago
  I notice a big difference in behaviour between even old games (think SNES, PS1) and modern games. There's definitely something in the new ones.
- j45 3y ago
  Seems like a 4 month old spicy throwaway take account. Comics of the 80s felt designed to let kids imagine a world bigger than the one they were in they had a place in a bigger world. Stan Lee has some great interviews on it.
Dah00n 3y ago
Except everyone knows it is true. Especially Meta, but a brave whistleblower made sure we all know. Well, at least I thought everyone know.
j45 3y ago
Parents lamented about comic books? Link?
- philipswood 3y ago
  If you far enough back parents lamented chess.
  - philipswood 3y ago
    Found a link for that: https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-society-1588675766 https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...
  - j45 3y ago
    Doubtstorming doesn’t make it legitimate or not Not really sure how the previous posts relate to social media and mobile use in children which is well established
    - philipswood 3y ago
      Agreed. My kids have restricted mobile and no social media access. But parents did use to think that comics would ruin their children - I'm responding to the disbelief in that.
- kouru225 3y ago
  I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember. It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/dp/159683000X https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d... Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic-books.html https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic... The scare went all the way to Congress. Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235 https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...

xrd 3y ago

Do you have kids? I've got kids, and addiction to tech is a real thing. Being a parent is so so hard, and then you add this thing that is designed to trigger every impulse. Every parent I know says "I'm so glad I didn't have to raise my kids with smart phones." And, I love comic books, and this is different.

doubled112 3y ago
I notice a big difference in behaviour between even old games (think SNES, PS1) and modern games. There's definitely something in the new ones.
j45 3y ago
Seems like a 4 month old spicy throwaway take account. Comics of the 80s felt designed to let kids imagine a world bigger than the one they were in they had a place in a bigger world. Stan Lee has some great interviews on it.

Dah00n 3y ago

Except everyone knows it is true. Especially Meta, but a brave whistleblower made sure we all know. Well, at least I thought everyone know.

j45 3y ago

Parents lamented about comic books? Link?

philipswood 3y ago
If you far enough back parents lamented chess.
- philipswood 3y ago
  Found a link for that: https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-society-1588675766 https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...
- j45 3y ago
  Doubtstorming doesn’t make it legitimate or not Not really sure how the previous posts relate to social media and mobile use in children which is well established
  - philipswood 3y ago
    Agreed. My kids have restricted mobile and no social media access. But parents did use to think that comics would ruin their children - I'm responding to the disbelief in that.
kouru225 3y ago
I was wrong about the era, apparently the height of the comic book scare was the late 1950s, but it continued to the end of the century as far as I remember. It's all based on this book Seduction of the Innocent: https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/dp/159683000X https://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Innocent-Frederic-Wertham/d... Here's an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic-books.html https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/the-campaign-against-comic... The scare went all the way to Congress. Here's a book about the history of the comic book scare: https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-America/dp/0312428235 https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Cent-Plague-Comic-Book-Changed-Am...