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I think Plato's argument is best illustrated by the TV show How TV Ruined Your Life by Charlie Brooker (the creator of Black Mirror). Each episode covers differ
by throwup238 3y ago
I think Plato's argument is best illustrated by the TV show How TV Ruined Your Life by Charlie Brooker (the creator of Black Mirror). Each episode covers different topics like technology, love, etc. which television has completely warped.
It's not even about glorifying some of the worst aspects of humanity, it's about all of our expectations. My favorite concrete example is child birth: it's always portrayed as a quick procedure in the vast majority of TV shows, less than a few minutes from water breaking to the baby popping out. Nothing could be further from the truth and a lot of women get a nasty surprise when they get pregnant and an OBGYN explains what to expect.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoConsider, in a related vein, what happens when things are just omitted. Miscarriages are an extremely common phenomenon for humans. Yet while our stories about reproduction feature endless variations of the conception, pregnancy, childbirth and child raising parts of the process, very little mention is ever made of miscarriages. As a result, when they happen (which they do a lot), they come as a real shock for people who have not otherwise been exposed to this detail of the human condition, even though they are really quite normal, perhaps even mundane.
- Vecr 3y agoEvery single FDA vaccine prescribing guide says "All pregnancies have a risk of birth defect, loss, or other adverse outcomes. In the U.S. general population, the estimated background risk of major birth defects and miscarriage in clinically recognized pregnancies is 2% to 4% and 15% to 20%, respectively" or something very similar. At least try to calibrate your world model for something this important.