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My pet peeve: people saying every previous moral panic was unjustified because "after all, our generation turned out alright!" But your generation didn't. 70 y
by galdosdi 3y ago
My pet peeve: people saying every previous moral panic was unjustified because "after all, our generation turned out alright!"
But your generation didn't. 70 years of television destroyed the minds of the boomer generation and is responsible for a lot of today's ills, as traditional culture was replaced with manufactured content pumped out for the sole purpose of engagement -- much like social media today, but weaker.
We didn't survive TV, we just got used to and normalized it.
Same thing is happening with smartphones and addictive feeds now.
Some of the same people who say TV clearly didn't hurt us and is normal and OK, are the same who skewer the boomer generation. Don't they ever put two and two together? Of course not, that would take an attention span, which was reduced by TV and is now being finished off by TikTok
- rayiner 3y ago> But your generation didn't. 70 years of television destroyed the minds of the boomer generation and is responsible for a lot of today's ills, as traditional culture was replaced with manufactured content pumped out for the sole purpose of engagement -- much like social media today, but weaker. I think you can say that of a lot of the social experiments of the 20th century. Was teaching kids to “question authority” and “think for themselves” such a great idea? Maybe that’s why we got so many nutty anti-vaxxers and Alex Jones watching nuts.