Ironically, the message of the youth being “distracted” and “dumbed down” by social media and electronics is also propaganda that tracks backwards throughout time. Young people might be immature (hardly a unique thing generation to generation), but I’m not sure what you could point to and say that young people are more paralyzed by distractions than previous generations.
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Whenever I can (like, in the public library system, for example) I tell services I am under 13. That way they are required by law to treat me like a human being instead of a product.
Not just the kids; the Dumbening has worked on most of us, I’m sad to say.
Anti-intellectualism is a thing, as is the long ongoing psychological manipulation of the masses via our media; a nefarious ploy by the powers that be to keep us easily distracted with ‘bread and circuses.’
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Didn’t “they” say the same things about gen x? Especially about TV and video games… Also, satanic panic and punk panic.
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So what you’re saying is, if I pirate the game, I’m not subject to an EULA?
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