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"give me a boy until he is seven and I will tell you the man he becomes" there will be at least 1 entire generation of western kids that spectated short form c
by thin_carapace 3mo ago
"give me a boy until he is seven and I will tell you the man he becomes"
there will be at least 1 entire generation of western kids that spectated short form content on screens since the moment of birth. based on aristotle, this entire generation is going to be retarded. the EU legislature in question enables legal spectation of content exchanged by a generation of the retarded. the optimal path forward seems to be ensuring that the next generation is not retarded, otherwise human extinction will be rapidly accelerated. I don't see how corporate destruction of individual privacy is going to help ensure that the next generation is not retarded.
- protocolture 3mo agoWhy will basing them on Aristotle make them retarded?
- thin_carapace 3mo agothe opening quote is attributed to aristotle
- protocolture 3mo agoOk but the opening quote doesn't say "I agree with this poster that these kids will be retarded"
- Hugsbox 3mo agoMy brother in christ, please, reading comprehension. The opening quote is saying that a child's formative years will decide how they turn out.
- thin_carapace 3mo agorecommend to quickly spit out the bait before you get hooked
- protocolture 3mo agoYes but it doesnt back up the commenters subjective evaluation at all.
- Eueudhsbsj32 3mo agoWhy just western kids? Cell phone and tablet use by little kids in Asia is on a whole other level.
- thin_carapace 3mo agoI have no experience with the way children are raised in asia and am horrified that this phenomenon is not constrained to one particular region
- Scroll_Swe 3mo agoWhy did you think it was?
- thin_carapace 3mo agoI hoped that my tunnel visioned perspective only applied to that which I could see. to be fair according to another commentor asian kids don't get pushed brain rot, so I suppose there are degrees to this
- Scroll_Swe 3mo agoWell yes, China has their own TikTok pushing a different algorithm/recommendation But the western world has been trending down in culture sadly... I was a teen in 2005 and it was grim even then. Everyone wanted to be black for some reason.
- thin_carapace 3mo agothe west is in full scale culture annihilation mode. links from the current generation to their ancestors are constantly sabotaged, forcing the repetition of societal mistakes, thus producing generational suffering to be mined for profits. I wonder how youths behave in the east, and what they consider to be cool. it would be interesting to compare cultural methods of societal programming (eg. the west stifles youth uprising by promoting gangster rap & idolizing petty crime)