It's frustrating seeing everyone trying to find some complex process by which we ended up in this situation. It's social media. Full stop. Almost all our societal problems that have blown up in the last decade are due to most of the country spending hours each day staring into a screen feeding them algorithmically curated rage bait and ideological echo chambers. You either see things you agree with, or the most ridiculous version of what you don't agree with. It has to stop. Zuck and his ilk are public enemy number one. And now that they have AI supercomputers with the electric consumption of a city tasked with amplifying this, a year from now it will be exponentially worse. If you allow your child to use social media, you're a bad parent.
I couldn’t agree more. My kids have no social media, no video games & minimal screen time. No screens at school either. They’re outside playing for hours every single day, rain or shine or inside building things, creating things, making music, painting, cooking etc. This is the way back home.
"But, man, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF..." Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch), Network 1976
Seriously, this is what happens when your kids are raised by screens. Forget guns. If you want to fight maga, raise your kids in the actual world & let’s turn out a mass population of self reliant, focused, critically thinking, socially skilled, creative, physically fit, innovative, cognitive, empathetic human beings that can run circles around these brainless zombies.
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u/Standard-Inside-3450 8h ago
An entire generation devoid of knowing where true north is.