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by throwawee 1041 days ago
It's kind of inevitable. I grew up hearing movies decried as brain-rotting, imagination-killing junk food preventing everyone from reading a good book like nature intended. Of course the medium would be dethroned by something even more accessible.

When there's something even more convenient people will latch on to that instead. Expect nostalgia for the good ol' days when social media used to instill community values and awareness into the youth.

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> The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth

Exactly, same as it ever was.