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"TV will rot your brain"

• oblio 3y ago
  This is much worse. You didn't have a TV in your pocket when you were 10. Everyone else didn't and you weren't pressured by peers to have it. The TV didn't track you and basically try to abuse you secretly.
  • sublinear 3y ago
    > You didn't have a TV in your pocket when you were 10 Actually I did. It was a birthday gift from Radio Shack back in the late 90s. I was totally that nerd kid, but yes it was a literal TV. > Everyone else didn't and you weren't pressured by peers to have it Everyone had gameboys though. I found Pokemon a bit boring so I was often excluded. > The TV didn't track you and basically try to abuse you secretly The adults had cell phones and/or PDAs with abusive bosses on the other end. Soon enough us kids had them too. Helicopter parenting found a new gear and sexting and group text bullying became a thing. That was around 20 years ago.
• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  We laugh at that now. But it turns out it does. In the 60s and 70s there was a lot of research into the effects of television. Likely you've heard of theorist Marshall McLuhan. To this day [1] experimental psychologists are fascinated with the problem that while film/TV is an effective medium for news and education, it basically hypnotises people into a suggestible state. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39354-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39354-4