I'd go further. I've raised a number of kids to varying extents. A common problem with kids born since TV became affordable is that they are programmed to think anything can be solved in less than one hour. They are OK with something lasting two episodes, but that's the limit.
When I was a kid, TV told us that white men were supermen an…
I'd go further. I've raised a number of kids to varying extents. A common problem with kids born since TV became affordable is that they are programmed to think anything can be solved in less than one hour. They are OK with something lasting two episodes, but that's the limit.
When I was a kid, TV told us that white men were supermen and everyone else was - less. Lots of white men died trying to live up to that stupidity. This is the same thing, only different.
They have a cartoon view of authoritarianism, and all politics, and economics, and education, and actually it's a "whole world filter". They truly do live in a bubble. The interesting thing is every one of them that I talk to lives in a different bubble, many with relatively few areas of overlap.
I'm strongly tempted to make my own bubble and keep it away from their bubbles.
I'd go further. I've raised a number of kids to varying extents. A common problem with kids born since TV became affordable is that they are programmed to think anything can be solved in less than one hour. They are OK with something lasting two episodes, but that's the limit.
When I was a kid, TV told us that white men were supermen and everyone else was - less. Lots of white men died trying to live up to that stupidity. This is the same thing, only different.
They have a cartoon view of authoritarianism, and all politics, and economics, and education, and actually it's a "whole world filter". They truly do live in a bubble. The interesting thing is every one of them that I talk to lives in a different bubble, many with relatively few areas of overlap.
I'm strongly tempted to make my own bubble and keep it away from their bubbles.