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For my generation (just post-Boomer), it was the TV. For my parents, it was the radio. For their parents, reading out loud for everyone to enjoy ("Mr. Dickens
by IAmBroom 1y ago
For my generation (just post-Boomer), it was the TV.
For my parents, it was the radio.
For their parents, reading out loud for everyone to enjoy ("Mr. Dickens has published another episode of The Pickwick Papers!"), or playing instruments.
- AndrewDucker 1y agoYup. I'm Gen X (1972), and I'd read a book, watch TV, or (once we hit the mid-80s) I had a home computer.
- technothrasher 1y agoI spent much of my free childhood hours from about 1976 to 1988 in front of a computer screen. But I was certainly not in the mainstream.
- AndrewDucker 1y agoI don't think the mainstream people end up on HN.
- Kenji 1y ago[dead]
- bix6 1y agoMusic is medicine. I’ve been taking guitar for a few years now and it’s pure joy.
- bluGill 1y agoProblem is for the first month of lessons it is not joy, it is hard frustrating work where you sound bad and know it. Even when you are good lessons often are pushing you to do hard things and so they are not pure joy. My son has been taking violin for years, is really good, and loves it - but most of his practice time is still really hard pieces that need a lot of practice of the hard parts (stitching between 5th and 2nd position...) and he would prefer to sit down at the piano (he stopped lessons years ago) and play an easy piece.
- bix6 1y agoPracticing is always hard and I struggle to find time or energy to push myself but my goal was to be able to play basic chords and make up silly songs around the campfire so everything else is just a bonus.
- wagwang 1y agoThese things are not remotely comparable. Smartphones, especially social media double depression and suicide rates among teens.