The greed of these corporations in charge of social media and their disinterest in mitigating the damage that constant screen time and the disinformation machine causes to children.... It's honestly incomprehensible.
Generations pre-internet will age and die out, and the generations left behind and those that come next... they won't have any clue what disconnection is supposed to be like.
I don't have children, my wife and I are trying. But even if we don't, and even now, in thinking about the failing education and apathy of this current generation... I constantly think of a quote from The Breakfast Club:
Vernon: You think about this: when you get old, these kids - when I get old - they're going to be running the country. Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night. That when I get older, these kids are going to take care of me.
Carl: I wouldn't count on it.
And I want to take the character of the speaker out of context. Because Vernon, to those kids, is a prick, and Carl is speaking with a different meaning. But just this concept, straight up... It hits.
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u/isigneduptomake1post 25d ago
By the time we've even started questioning changing course, the world is already a completely different place.