[corimaith]

This is purely anecdotal, but looking at my experiences in late-primary to middle school from 2008-2012 so, the exposure to the internet from early on can be pretty bad.

8 year olds swearing left and right, talking about porn and pedos or making all sorts of unpleasant statements that you seen on 4chan can have a pretty debilitating effect on a child's development, especially before puberty has even begun. A kind of "innocence lost", a cruel and cynical culture that can envelope those who weren't exposed to it early on. Metasize that 10 years later and in 2015 or so we see the side effects of it. Now of course that might be just my school then, but it's still something I would consider today. There are certain heuristics regarding the changes in mass appeal of certain genres that I would correlate to deep, fundamental cynicism in the mainstream zeitgeist.

[whamlastxmas]

I was born in the 80s and said all that same dumb crap as a kid too. I learned it from music.

[relaxing]

Same. I learned it from the older kids who I assume heard it from their parents - the really noxious racism and sexism you wouldn’t even get in R movies. We still knew it.

[roland35]

Rock and Roll is the devil's music!