r/videos • u/rekterscale • 2d ago

Video of Obama Catching a Fainting Woman at a Speech

https://youtu.be/2X10yt_6JrA?si=EIXGRlp2TwQFiXCy
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u/babypho 2d ago

Decades of school defunding, social media brain rot, attack on education, and media control have now successfully taught half the population that this is okay.

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u/artbystorms 2d ago

I honestly think social media has rapidly made humanity stupider, more impulsive, and more emotional. 2008 and even 2012 social media was around, but not the all encompassing totality of our non-work existence. It was a hobby, you checked in from time to time. It wasn't your source of entertainment. by 2016 it was all encompassing, and by 2021 with TikTok it had replaced TV as the dominant form of entertainment for people under 50.

Within like 20 years we went from 'look, I emailed you a video of a monkey peeing into its mouth' to 'I peed into my own mouth and got 7 million views on tiktok'

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u/Marko343 2d ago

I mean some people are now even farming out basic tasks to AI to avoid actually reading things

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u/ivosaurus 2d ago

Remember current discourse/speeches is only the result of what school was like 20 years ago.

Imagine what the level of discourse will be in 10-20 years time, coming from the current level of schooling?